I think your dead wrong about the people not living in a controlled state, the authorities might be distracted for the moment, but the authoritarian regime is very much still in place, there are huge numbers of National Police and the IRG has not been put down to any significant degree. I am hoping that that happens but it would require for the people to rise up by the millions, make huge sacrifices and take control. Incredibly simple minds like Trump have absolutely no understanding of how a democracy develops organically. He seems to think he can just bomb the country into submission, that's not going to work. All that's doing right now is creating worldwide chaos, driving up inflation everywhere, and creating a huge mess for the Persian people. But with all his ill-gotten cash why would he care about us? Or them?
