Led for decades by a religious dictator? Doesn’t meet any definition of democracy I’m aware of.
But there were elections, for positions of limited power where the wrong people won (so the regime kept changing the rules) which is why I have thought for a long time that it's not a stable situation. As the people have (had) an officially recognised voice with no power. I kept wondering whether they would get power or lose their voice. It looked like the regime was going for the second.