Most important, “the Tudeh Party will be ruthlessly curbed.” Secretary Dulles asserted that “the United States now had a second chance in Iran.” In the following months thousands of Mossadeq supporters, National Front members, and Tudeh Party members were arrested. Mossadeq himself was tried and convicted and would spend the rest of his life under house arrest. The bureaucracy and military were thoroughly purged of unreliable elements. Zahedi successfully put into place the foundations of an authoritarian regime that would endure until 1979.18
