NCRI- A U.S. State Department official told reporters Wednesday that "Iran is increasingly showing itself to be a police state" and is using its security forces to try to "stamp out" the "aspirations of the Iranian people."
"It is using all of its levers, all of its various security elements to try to stamp out clearly the aspirations of the Iranian people for a different relationship with their government," the assistant secretary of state for public affairs, Philip Crowley said.
"And yet the people keep on finding a way to exercise their universal rights of freedom of assembly, freedom of speech," he added.
"Iran keeps on trying to find ways to prevent them… access to the modern tools of communication," Crowley said.
"Iran has to take note of what its people are saying. They want a government that's working on their behalf, that's serving their interests, that leads to a different kind of relationship with the rest of the world," he said.
On Wednesday, Iranian regime's suppressive forces prevented people from holding a memorial service in Esfahan for Ayatollah Hossein-Ali Montazeri who died in Qom on Sunday. They attacked people who had gathered to take part in the service with batons and teargas and pepper gas. A large number of people were wounded and dozens arrested.
