Well no, because turnout isn't the only score you should use to measure how democratic an electoral system, or a country is, but of course you know.
All candidates have to be approved by the Guardian Council, which is dominated by the Clerics. In fact all of Iranian Politics is dominated by an un-elected clerical class, headed by the Supreme Leader, who has absolute powers, that would be an 18th Monarch blush.
I know it's the internet, but as a general rule, if you're defending a theocratic regime, you're doing something wrong. It's possible, as I'd wager a vast majority of Iranians in 1979 did, to support a democratic, liberal Iran, that didn't grant power to either the Shah's or the Clerics.
