Women don't make a country, the Shah's reforms massively embittered religious conservatives, eventually they had had enough.
One law was literally that women were only allowed to wear western clothes, anything else was banned, that's not very liberal, that's forced cultural death. How would you feel as a resident of the UK if Western clothes were banned and you had to wear someone else's cultural clothing? That was undoubtedly just going to unreasonably annoy a large sector of the country for little gain, there is literally no point in fundamental changes over gradual ones when it can be instantly reverted upon.
You can't just instantly change a country, it will always fight back eventually, especially when the economic reforms that came at the same time don't actually resolve the issues they were intended to. The discontent was eaten up by the clergy unfortunately and that's how it ended up taking the reins completely. I'm not defending the way it went, but i understand why it occurred and why all that social freedom was so temporary. Discontented people don't typically go for the best option.
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