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Not really. There was a prequel book published a few years ago about the earliest days of the regime, but reviews were so-so and it didn't capture that lightning in the bottle.
The original was basically intended as a veiled criticism of the 1980s anti-porn alliance between some Second Wave feminists and the Moral Majority types. "Don't break bread with people who'd otherwise destroy you." The Iranian Revolution was also in the background, but more in the sense that everyone knew what it was indirectly referencing.