Iran: Chinese or North Korean style of ruling

A prominent group, Sazman-e Mojahedin-e Enghelab-e Eslami, which is quite an influential group in the reformist camp, has said that contrary to their expectations about conservatives adopting a Chinese-style of development (expand socio-economic freedoms and limiting political activities), so far they've shown that they are interested in a North Korean style of running the country in which all sort of freedoms would be pushed to minimum.

As a matter of fact, almost everybody was predicting that, because in the past couple of years, the conservatives have talked about it all the time. But how and why they suddenly changed their path? I think part of the answer is the pressure on Nuclear programs which has benefited the military men at Iran's Revolutionary Guards.