Abbas Djavadi's Blog

Imagine you live somewhere in Iran and somebody calls you from Istanbul or Dubai and asks you about your opinion on the Supreme Leader, Khamenei, or Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, or what media you use to get your news and information.  I personally would probably hang up or, at best, say: “Oh, yes, everything is fine. I support the government and I never watch the BBC Persian TV and I never listen to Radio Farda.” The results of such a polling, recently done by http://WorldPublicOpinion.org, could be seen here:

http://www.demdigest.net/blog/islampolitics/iranians-favor-regime-over-green-movement-dark-cloud-over-iran-poll-data.html

Its conclusion is this: “Mahmoud Ahmedinejad clearly won last June’s Presidential election, even securing majority support from women and Iranians who view Western news media, while Green protest movement is demonstrably at odds with the country’s mainstream public opinion.”

How can we be so deadly naive?

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