I'm not sure what the term is for this, but how does the IRI compare to Pahlavi Iran when it comes to things like:
-Building Infrastructure
-Improving Health Care
-Educating the Populace (basic literacy & higher education)
-Human Rights
-Women's Rights
-Minority Rights (Arabs, once-nomadic Iranian tribes, religious minorities, other ethnic minorities)
-Access to Justice
-Other things people care about that I'm probably forgetting
Literacy rates: http://www.wolframalpha.com/share/clip?f=d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427ehfrtb91gus
A new U.N. report highlights Iran’s significant progress in providing citizens with a long and healthy life, access to education and a decent standard of living. Between 1980 and 2012, Iran’s life expectancy at birth increased by 22.1 years, mean years of schooling increased by 5.7 years, and expected years of schooling increased by 5.7 years. The gross national income per capita also increased by about 48 percent between 1980 and 2012.
http://iranprimer.usip.org/blog/2013/apr/01/un-stats-life-longer-and-healthier-iran
More than this, Iran has made considerable progress in human development when measured over the past 32 years. According to UNDP calculations, between the years 1980 and 2012, Iran’s HDI value increased by 67 per cent – or at an average annual increase of about 1.6 per cent [edit. China's HDI improved 70% compared to Iran's 67%]. During the same period, for other countries in the High Human Development group (the group containing Iran), the average annual gain was only about half of what Iran managed – 0.73 per cent. For all countries on the planet, the average gain was even less – only 0.69 per cent. This means that Iran’s annual growth in its HDI was over double the global average. Simultaneously, this would imply that – from a human development standpoint – during the period 1980-2012, Iran’s policy interventions were both significant and appropriate to produce improvements in human development.