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No, they do. They think "this is awesome!" 
Look at DeSantis. He's an intelligent man. He's charging teachers with felonies for teaching students that gay people exist because he likes it. Running a dictatorial regime is fun for him.
The Guardian is authwalled. To summarize:
An engaged couple, who were popular on Instagram, posted a video of themselves dancing together in public, and the woman did not have a head covering. Dancing in public is forbidden. A woman dancing with a man in public is especially forbidden. The woman not covering her head in public is forbidden. Oh, and they did this dance in front of a national landmark which is a symbol of the regime and whose designer lives in exile because his religion is forbidden. The name of the landmark? The Freedom (Azadi) Tower, of course.
The couple was convicted without access to lawyers and bail was denied. The charges were “encouraging corruption and public prostitution” and “gathering with the intention of disrupting national security”.
The woman was sent to Iran's squalid, overcrowded prison for women. >

What a piece of shit regime. This is no way to live. I hope the people of Iran overthrow them and charge them with every death and abuse under their watch. Enjoy 4000 years in prison, fuckers. >

If the people of Iran overthrow the government there will be no prison time for anyone. >

There's got to be times if you're running a theocracy when you must think, "What the fuck are we doing?" >

I'll go out on a limb and say they probably don't have a second thought about any of the crazy shit they do.