Is USA becoming Iran?

I just ordered the book Journey from the Land of No : A Girlhood Caught in Revolutionary Iran by Roya Hakakian. Ms Hakakian was interviewed this evening on NOW with Bill Moyers.
It struck me that what Iran went through with the revolution in the
late 80's - and then becoming a nation with religion interwoven with
government - has too many parallels with the direction the
neoconservatives are pushing the United States.

While
the phrase "separation of church and state" does not exist in the
Constitution, the First Amendment of the US Constitution (links: Constitution Amendments) begins with the words that clearly define such separation:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof...

Iran is now experiencing a growing desire of its people to remove
religion from government - to enjoy the religious freedom that we in
the USA have too often taken for granted. I fear that we are seeing the
beginning of the loss of that freedom, and that, ironically, this loss
is in the name of religion and moral values.