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I'm not familiar with the religious culture of Jehovah's Witnesses but it'd be wrong to think that the bringers of said cultural change in their respective countries were somehow of a different denomination than the majority. They were all of the same religion, for the most part.
Nobody seized power for these changes to happen. People adapted to influential people and their ideas. In the case of Iran, they practically bullied women to be more European in appearance (they used to have differently gendered views of beauty). And then later, for anti-Western movements, they felt the need to be "more Muslim" in appearance and the concept of hijab became more strict. Being anti-gay (anti-gay acts outside of sodomy) happened as a result of wanting to be more Western and simply continued as it wasn't associated with being Western anymore and complemented tenets of anti-sodomy. They didn't even have concepts of homosexuality before this, and sodomy used to be on the same level of haram as drinking alcohol or heterosexual adultery.
I should remind you that everything I say is a gross oversimplification of a lot, and doesn't apply all over the Middle East. This post is mostly just me trying to remember details from the books "Women with Mustaches and Men without Beards" by Afsaneh Najmabadi and "Before Homosexuality in the Arab-Islamic World, 1500 –1800" by Khaled El-Rouayheb.
The answer to your question depends on if you think that current-day America looks anything like pic related and if Jehovah Witnesses look anything like current-day Iran.