 Nyorera kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Mumakore okutanga okutonga kwaal-Bakr, Soviet Union yakava mubatsiri wezano. Zvisinei, nokuwedzera kwemari inobva pamafuta ukama pakati peIraq neSoviet Union hwakaderera. Hurumende yeIraq yakapiwa rusununguko rukuru rwokusarudza, uye yakarasikirwa nokuvimba kwayo nemari dzeSoviet. Soviet Union, mukati menguva iyi, yakachengeta basa rayo somugoveri mukuru wezvombo weIraq. Nokushanduka kwezvinokosheswa neIraq mune zvematongerwe enyika, kudzvinyirira ICP kwakatangazve. Soviet Union yakaedza kuita somurevereri pakati pemapato maviri, asi kubatanidzwa kweSoviet kwakarangarirwa nehurumende yeBaathist sekupindira kweSoviet muzvinhu zvemukati zveIraq. Mukati meHondo yeIran neIraq Leonid Brezhnev, Munyori Mukuru weCentral Committee yeCommunist Party yeSoviet Union, akadana hondo yacho kuti isina maturo chose chose nemhaka yokuti kurwisana kwacho kwakabetsera bedzi umambo. Zvisinei, hukama hweSoviet-Iranian hwakashata panguva yehondo nekuda kwekutsigirwa kweIran kumasimba anopesana nemakomunisti muAfghan Democratic Republic. Mukati mokutonga kwaYuri Andropov kweSoviet Union, kwakanga kune runyerekupe rwokuti USSR yakanga ichiwedzera kutumira kwayo zvombo zvemazuva ano kuIraq mukati mehondo yayo neIran. Ikoku kwakabvumikisa kuva kwakaipa, uye Saddam akanyunyuta pachena kuti Chibvumirano choUshamwari chakasainwa neSoviet Union hachina kushanda. Mukutonga kwaKonstantin Chernenko, hukama hweSoviet Union neIran hwakawedzera kuderera sezvo hutungamiriri hweSoviet hwakatanga kushora hunhu hweIslam. Muna 1986, pasi paMikhail Gorbachev, Soviet Union yakachinja zvayo chimiro kubva pakuva isina kwayakarerekera kuenda kukudzivisa Iran. Iyi nhevedzano yakaramba iripo kusvikira hondo neIran yapera muna 1988. Mukati mokupinda kweIraq muKuwait uye Hondo yeGulf yakatevera, Soviet Union yakanga isina kwayakarerekera pamutemo. Nokukurumidza pashure pacho, pana December 26, 1991, Soviet Union yakaparadzwa zviri pamutemo. 