A senior Iranian lawmaker voiced Iran\'s strong support for the Occupy Wall Street protests in the US and other western countries ruled by the capitalist system, and said the uprisings are choking the West.\"The West is sinking in a swamp and won\'t be able to come out of it and the swamp is Wall Street (uprisings),\" member of the parliament\'s National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Hossein Ebrahimi told FNA on Wednesday. He added that the Wall Street campaign has now spread to over 82 countries and 1000 cities of the world, and reiterated that the uprisings are now smothering the West. His remarks came as people across the globe have begun showing support for the Occupy Wall Street protests in New York City in a bid to display that they are exhausted with the repercussions of the capitalist system. Anti-capitalist protesters rally globally almost on a daily basis, denouncing bankers and politicians over the international economic crisis. In New York, where the movement began when protesters set up a makeshift camp in Lower Manhattan on Sept. 17, police have arrested hundreds of people during demonstrations against corporate greed. Yet, organizers said the protest has grown to other cities and will continue to the end of the capitalist system. New reports from New York say that the police dismantled the Occupy Wall Street camp in Zuccotti Park and arrested more than 70 people following a November 15 midnight raid.Police started the raid at midnight and removed tents and property. A camp in Oakland, California was cleared overnight on Monday. The message is that income and equality is widening in America and that the banks received a bailout after the financial crisis which protesters feel they were responsible for causing.