Speaking as someone who has actually been to Iran multiple times (nearly every year) for the past 30 years and has been able to talk to their Iranian family members over the past few weeks, I wish people would be less naive when thinking this war will do anything to help the general population achieve greater religious/political/personal freedom
The fact is that since the 1990s, women within Iran have repeatedly been able to push back against the government and been able to gain small (but symbolically significant) wins in how they dress, their participation in the workforce, and individual liberties. One small example of this is the headscarf and how since the women, life, freedom movement it's been less strictly enforced. The point I am making is that the population itself has been able to fight for change by itself. It would have been able to do that much more effectively without being heavily sanctioned all these years. Internal iranian struggles should not be used as a justification or rationalisation for external parties to instigate war
Iranian people unite under pressure - whilst my family and friends hate the government, they love their country more. The Iran-Iraq war showed how Iranians will fight tooth and nail to protect their country even if they hate their regime. They didn't use it as an opportunity to overthrow their government or break out into guerilla warfare.
To think the people would flood the streets as the first bombs of this war hit Iran, when they'd been so badly betrayed in January, was wishful thinking - bear in mind that there is no alternative power in Iran that would be an obvious contender to the current Islamic Republic and that people already have observed what happens in a power vacuum. These people are largely educated (often to undergraduate or postgraduate level). Contrary to what mainstream media was attempting to portray in January, the former Crown prince Reza Pahlavi has little popularity in Iran - they would prefer democracy over monarchy.
Western media tries to portray the average Iranian as cowering from the IRGC and the Basij, but they rise up regularly when they believe there is a sufficient strength and cause to do so.
Only weighing in since some posters have mentioned Iran's domestic situation and violence towards its own people on this thread already, which I believe is largely irrelevant to the intended discussion (yes I understand the irony of my post!)