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In reading about the history of the Tudeh party (the main Marxist party in Iran), and it seems that the Soviets encouraged Tudeh to get in the good graces of the new rulers of the Republic. That leads me to believe that it isn't impossible to see the Soviets make more of an attempt to woo the Islamic Republic. So what would have happened if the Soviets had offered Iran their support during the war with Iraq? Would Iran have accepted? Would it have led the west to give more support to Saddam than they did OTL? What effects would Soviet support have had on the Iranian side of things?