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Clinton: Iran becoming ‘military dictatorship’
« on: February 15, 2010, 06:48:52 AM »
Revolutionary Guard is supplanting Tehran’s government, she says


DOHA, Qatar - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Monday that Iran is becoming a military dictatorship, a new U.S. accusation in the midst of rising tensions with Iran over its nuclear ambitions and crack down on anti-government protesters.

Speaking to Arab students at Carnegie Mellon's Doha campus, Clinton said Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps appears to have gained so much power that it effectively is supplanting the government.

"Iran is moving toward a military dictatorship," she said. "That is our view."
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 firm he runs because of their alleged involvement in producing and spreading weapons of mass destruction.

The Revolutionary Guard has long been a pillar of Iran's regime as a force separate from the ordinary armed forces. The Guard now has a hand in every critical area including missile development, oil resources, dam building, road construction, telecommunications and nuclear technology.

It also has absorbed the paramilitary Basij as a full-fledged part of its command structure — giving the militia greater funding and a stronger presence in Iran's internal politics.

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Re: Clinton: Iran becoming ‘military dictatorship’
« Reply #1 on: February 15, 2010, 08:29:19 PM »
The QUDS Force and Revolutionary Guard have been running that country for a while.

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Re: Clinton: Iran becoming ‘military dictatorship’
« Reply #2 on: February 16, 2010, 05:51:59 AM »
And what is it now/in the past? The president is a figure head, the Supreme Leader and his cabal run the country.

I believe Iran is a bicameral legislation but the only voting that is actually real only happens on the very local level, every thing else is a rubber stamp committee.