Let's imagine, for the sake of argument, that all Iranian leftists on the eve of the Iranian Revolution had the benefit of learning from Valentine M. Moghadam's insight and acted accordingly. Would the Iranian Revolution have then resulted in a secular socialist government? I doubt it.
Take a look at Maziar Behrooz's "Rebels With a Cause: The Failure of the Left in Iran": <http://bss.sfsu.edu/behrooz/m-keddie.pdf>. It looks like the Marxist Left in Iran, multiply fragmented, were too few in number and came to the revolution too late, which had already been initiated by other revolutionaries; and the Marxist Left, if Behrooz is to be believed, mainly came from relatively elite backgrounds (by the standards of Iran at that time), which he believes may have been one of the main reasons they did not enjoy enough support among workers and peasants to defeat Islamists.
Sometimes, masses of ordinary people, themselves religious and conservative, prefer Islamists to Marxists and look on the former's repression of the latter with equanimity.
I suppose that, had all Iranian leftists enjoyed the insight of Moghadam, they might have just gotten out of Iran in time and avoided getting involved in the revolution whose supporters did not favor them. -- Yoshie <http://montages.blogspot.com/> <http://mrzine.org> <http://monthlyreview.org/>