Hillary Clinton urges Iran to dump Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Telegraph
September 20, 2010

• A d v e r t i s e m e n t

Short of an explicit call to the Iranian people to revolt, Mrs Clinton’s comments represented a sharpening of rhetoric as she increasingly seeks to portray Iran as a military dictatorship.

Mrs Clinton said the military, especially the elite Revolutionary Guard, was wielding more and more power to prop up a regime struggling to maintain its legitimacy since last year’s “very flawed” presidential elections.

“And I can only hope that there will be some effort inside Iran, by responsible civil and religious leaders, to take hold of the apparatus of the state,” she told ABC News.

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“When you empower a military as much as they have to rely on them to put down legitimate protests and demonstrations, you create a momentum and unleash forces that you do not know where they will end up.

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