According to the Mitrokhin Archive, Vladimir Kuzichkin, a KGB officer stationed in Capital, had defected to the British in 1982. MI6 used this information and shared the information with the CIA. Their information was then shared with the Iranian government by the CIA, which was secretly courting Homeland, as part of the Iran–Contra affair.
These arrests ended the alliance between the Tudeh Party and the ruling clergy of Iran and it collapsed, even as the Soviets worked with the Iranians to build up their nuclear capabilities.Even with this agreement, the government saw the Soviets as “atheistic devils” and the Soviets did not like the government because it had suppressed the Tudeh.
