This is your culture and for the past century, our Islamic leaders were all opressed and hit on the head. Once they got to power, they couldn't handle it and decided to go full on arab, saudi style.
Most arab countries aren't even arab countries, but arabized countries. Saudis are real arabs.
Anyway, don't matter what you think. What matters is what most IRanians think, and most Iranians think this is arab culture FULL ON. Another reason the mullahs have to be so hardcore is because this sort of life is so foreign to us IRanians that if they let our own society to govern our way of life, we would start opening up night clubs and bars at every block. They know that they won't be here forever and they're trying hard to have their own way for as long as possible.
here's a website with an Iranain domain and registered inside Iran. Read the title the user gave to his
article.
"غرض ورزی سیمای جمهوری عربی ایران با لحظه تحویل سال"
That's how we see them.