@hawkeye10,
The Iranians don't see it that way, and it's their country.
Our prime minister is elected by parliament. Presidential elections aren't more democratic than parliamentary systems, they're just different.
Regardless of what emergency powers he may have been using the reason he was deposed was because he was going to use Iran's oil to benefit Iran, not Western oil interests.
In many ways it was just like the illegal invasion of Iraq, the West pretending it's to help the people, but it's just about oil.