Yeah that’s what I was thinking. The title is based on a false premise. Why would the American left care about the Iranian peoples opinion. They still lionize Che Guevara, a guy hated and killed by villagers.
They also were big supporters of the USSR and how they controlled all their ‘satellite’ countries and ‘allies’ putting down freedom efforts - most famously in Hungary and Czechoslovakia.
They only support democratic actions that get them into power. Then they’re all about domination and fascism.