[Greetings_Puny_Humans]

They destabilized Iran under the Shah, thinking they could control the radicals once they had there own people in power. That failed spectacularly.

By what standard? Iran is still a Russian ally and receives aid in the form of nuclear technology, material and weapons support, as well as political cover via Russia's role in the UN. Iran's intelligence service is still heavily modeled after the KGB, which was why I did not even trust the "Green Revolution" in Iran when I discovered that its leading bigshot had worked for that aforementioned intelligence service.

If that’s true, (which I doubt)

You're one of Putin's biggest propagandists on this forum, so it's no wonder you'd have your doubts about something.

[tcrlaf]

The Russians weren’t any more popular than Americans in Iran after the fall of the shah. They supported Saddam in the Iran-Iraq war, and kept the Soviet border closed.

It wasn’t until the late 90’s, well after the fall of the Soviet Union, and the removal from power of most of the people involved in supporting Saddam that Russian-Iranian relations began to warm again.

And please, save the trolling...