So it would have been better to live under the lie of the corrupt royal mullahs or whatever they are there?
If this leads to reform and to a sweeping out of the trash, then the leak was a good one. If there are casualties in the process, then that is tragic, but sometimes you can’t avoid breaking a few eggs while making omelettes.
Chances are, unfortunately, that whatever replaces this government will be just as corrupt as the last. Seems that the George Washington and Thomas Jefferson types are fairly rare in history.