Those who have studied Iran's culture and history in the times before the revolution can see how Mohammad Reza shah wished to push cultural progress just like his father Reza shah did.
The problem with their approach was simple. It was too much, too fast, and people had such a hard time adjusting, that they actually blew up whole thing and elected crazy uneducated Mullah terrorists. Just like you put too much heat under something and burn it.
What this has to do with the rest of the world? Well, the similarity is a lot when you compare this to the current situation in the U.S. and much of the world. Too much social progress on race, gender, freedom, equality, and then you have Trump, Must, Zuckerberg, and those like them, coming to push back the world by decades. Zuckerberg dismantling all options for women and minorities, Musk and Trump doing the same at the national level, and rest of the world actually electing the nazis.
I'm somewhat concerned for what is to come.