(AP) -- 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 (GUH'-ter), Clinton said the Revolutionary Guard Corps in Iran appears to have gained so much power that it effectively is supplanting the government.
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. Treasury cited alleged involvement in producing and spreading weapons of mass destruction.
Clinton has been making a quick visit to Persian Gulf allies Qatar (GUH'-tur) and Saudi Arabia as part of a U.S effort to shore up support for a tougher international stance against Iran's nuclear program.
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