The move appeared to be a concession to the protest movement that erupted after the death of Mahsa Amini, a young woman who was being held by the morality police for supposedly violating Islamic dress rules.
The Iranian Left was so successfully crushed by the Islamists that I consider a Socialist Iran pie-in-the-sky. It's hard to even hope for an anti-NATO bourgeois republic a la Syria or Russia, since a military coup (which is necessary for such a thing to happen) is unlikely due to how powerful and politically-reliable the IRGC is. Even in that event, the US would pounce on any instability and install their own toadies.
The Iranian Left was so successfully crushed by the Islamists that I consider a Socialist Iran pie-in-the-sky. It's hard to even hope for an anti-NATO bourgeois republic a la Syria or Russia, since a military coup (which is necessary for such a thing to happen) is unlikely due to how powerful and politically-reliable the IRGC is. Even in that event, the US would pounce on any instability and install their own toadies.