February 15, 2010
Clinton says Iran's Revolutionary Guard is effectively taking over as the main power in Tehran
DOHA, Qatar (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says the Obama administration believes Iran is becoming a military dictatorship.
In remarks to Arab students at Carnegie Mellon's campus in Qatar, Clinton said the Revolutionary Guard Corps in Iran appears to have gained so much power that it effectively is supplanting the government.
She said, "Iran is moving toward a military dictatorship."
Last week the U.S. Treasury Department announced that it was freezing the assets in U.S. jurisdictions of a Revolutionary Guard general and four subsidiaries of a previously penalized construction company he runs because of their alleged involvement in producing and spreading weapons of mass destruction.
