if you look at the iranian response over the past month, the theocracy really hasn't played into it.

no calls to jihad, no ayatollah dorecting anything, no nothing.

as far as i can tell, the revolution is already dead. if the US had just sat around, chances are that iran would have moved towards something more like a constitutional monarchy. still the ayatollah as a figure head and religious leader, but with the rest of the power in the democratic institutions' hands