Yeah, an opresive theocracy definitely doesnt have people willing to fight and die to free themselves from them.

You're speaking as if the two are even mutually exclusive - that someone can't be against the Iranian state, the same as opposition to every state in every country of the world which exists and has always existed for various genuine ideological reasons - and simultaneously be in service of and working on a foreign payroll as they believe it'll better ensure their success and the accomplishment of their goals.

Someone can have their own legitimate reasons for opposing Tehran, but that doesn't mean they haven't been turned and co-opted into either a U.S. or Israeli intelligence asset exploiting that ideological distance and hostility they feel toward the state.

That's how all color revolutions and attempted color revolutions and other forms of foreign-backed civil unrest, rebellion, insurgency, terrorism, etc. function. That's what proxy wars are. Why do people always talk and treat it as if it were one or the other? There are always legitimate real people with earnest convictions and there are always hostile foreign actors weaponizing some of them to fulfill a malicious objective to puppetize, destabilize, and destroy the country (because it's their geopolitical adversary, is too independent and doesn't obey their will, etc.).

Anyone with even basic historical and political learning and even barebones context should be able to look at Iran and see clearly that that was one of many instances of that dynamic at play.