Iran ranks 3rd in the world in numbers of engineers. 70% of them are women.
'The second class citizens' is exagerated, and often simply lies for propaganda purposes, like the Mahsa Amini case.
The last execution of homosexuals was 20 years ago, and this was for rape, not bcs homosexuality.

Yes many islamic countries have issues, and these are the typical hasbara machine's ammo:
"Let us genocide the Palestinians bcs they hate the gays!"

Also your WW2 'democracies' were - and still are in many cases - colonisers and looters of a large part of the world.

That’s hardly a reasonable comparison though is it?

It's entirely reasonable, you just have a white supremacist double standard.

The allies during WW2 were mostly functioning democracies.

The vast majority of the British Empire couldn't vote and were considered lesser beings. The US had racial inequality inshrined into law and a habit of murdering minorities. The USSR I leave as an exercise to the reader.

This conflict is a theocratic dictatorship

I assume you mean Israel.

which treats women as second class citizens

Lol, the WW2 allies absolutely treated women as second class citizens, and criminalised homosexuality. Its also ghoulish the way westerners go "these countries treat minorities badly, so it's ok to kill them (including the minorities). Ukraine isn't perfect about minorities either, do you use that to say they deserve to get invaded? Oh wait, Ukraine in white.

Both sides are fucking evil and to celebrate one over the other is ignorant.

The British Empire was more evil than Iran by multiple orders of magnitude, yet for some reason (white supremacy) you don't take this stance on WW2

USSR?