Amman – A senior Jordanian opposition figure said that the government of Jordan is using all means to suppress Islamic groups in the West Asian country due to their growing influence among people.

"The government of Jordan fears growing popularity of Islamic movements among citizens and is also deeply concerned about their power, accordingly it is trying to use all possible means to stop their activity and is undermining them by any means possible," Mohammad Ziod, Member of the Executive Office of Jordan's Islamic Action Front (IAF), the political wing of the Muslim Brotherhood Party, told Fars News Agency on Tuesday.

Protestors from the Islamic Action Front Party took part in an anti-government rally outside the prime minister's office in Amman, capital of Jordan, on December 24, 2011.

Jordan's Islamic groups called on the government to arrest the perpetrators of violence against demonstrators on Friday in the city of Mafraq northeast of the Jordanian capital Amman.

The IAF said that government supporters on Friday assaulted demonstrators who took to the streets demanding uprooting corruption, in addition to burning the offices of the Muslim Brotherhood in Mafraq, some kilometers northeast of Amman.