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If in 1978 the USSR were to supply "moderate rebels" and who ever would overthrow the king to install a Communist government would Jimmy carter do anything about it?
Would the USSR likely end up with a friendly Communist Saudi Arabia or would have to fight the US in a proxy war over the middle eastern state?