Hillary Clinton says: Iran Moving Toward Military Dictatorship

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the United States is worried that Iran is heading toward a military dictatorship due to the growing power of the Revolutionary Guard Corps. "That is how we see it," she said. "We see that the government of Iran, the supreme leader, the president, the parliament, is being supplanted and that Iran is moving toward a military dictatorship." The New York Times says the remarks were "remarkably blunt," particularly given that she was speaking to an audience in Qatar, a country with close ties to Iran. But her words were building on recent efforts to describe the Revolutionary Guard Corps as an "entitled class" and comes on the heels of the Treasury Department announcement that it would be freezing the assets of a Revolutionary Guard general and four subsidiaries of a construction company that are controlled by the Guards. At the televised forum with students, Clinton denied that the United States is planning a military attack on Iran, emphasizing that the United States is focusing on trying to garner international support for sanctions "that will be particularly aimed at those enterprises controlled by the Revolutionary Guard." The White House hopes that by focusing so much attention on the Revolutionary Guards it can make people inside Iran question the growing economic and political power of the force that was set up after the 1979 revolution to operate separately from the regular military and answer directly to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. For more background information on Iran's Revolutionary Guards, Reuters has a good cheat sheet.
The New York Times | Monday, Feb. 15, 2010

Iran is moving closer to becoming a nuclear power that we can't push around. Time to Bring Them The Gift Of American Democracy. With Bombs.

Why is this bad in Iran but good in Honduras?