If the country and the system which manages it does not even allow their citizens to wear what they want during their daily routines, then we about talking about a democracy, rather a theocracy. Not even mention people can vote for the president of Iran, but they have no saying on whether they want to remove their supreme leader through a referendum through direct vote, bit even mention that supreme leader is set to rule the country for the rest of his life after being selected. Does not sound like a democracy to me.
Next thing I will read in the forum will be someone claiming North Korea is a democracy as well, I guess.