Your analogy doesnt make sense. The burglar to car thief is an escalation of the bad behavior by just one actor. So to put in the original situation that'd be like Iran punishing a woman for not wearing the Hijab, then NOT hanging a homosexual and you praising Iran. Same burglar, so same country. My point was more like, 2 burglars in your neighborhood. One is your friend who fills your car up with Gas. The other is your enemy who slashes your tires. Both burglars steal, but one harms you, the other helps you. You're not friends with either of them because you like them, you're friends with one of them for the gas. That's be a better reflection of reality. You're being clever, but not wise.

Pretending to hold a a country up to an abstract absolute "right" is wasted in geopolitics because no country is absolutely perfect. Each country is relatively closer or farther to that point of perfection. Therefore it's entirely relevant to judge countries relatively.

In this case we have Iran who is punishing a woman for not wearing a hijab. That's bad. The Op I replied to alluded to the US's "Best friends" in what is obviously some kind of "Oh US, such hypocrite!" moment. He could have easily pointed out that, well what Iran is doing is bad, and the US opposes it, so good on the US instead of saying "oh well the US has friends that do the same thing!?" So? The US doesn't praise Saudi Arabia for it? No. The human rights conversation between the US and Saudi Arabia gets very awkward very fast. They hate us about as much as we hate them.

So basically, if you're goal is to knock the US, you can come to the comments of an article that is about Iran's gross human rights violations and mention another country that the US doesn't oppose, and make the US look bad by taking that bad thing Iran did and alluding to the US ally doing it. It effectively gives Iran a pass. It's all just a grand-stand, not a moral stand.