Michael Ledeen has reported on an opinion poll the regime conducted two or three years ago. "It was carried out by someone in the information ministry.
So, imagine, you're an Iranian and you're walking down the street of, say, Isfahan, and
some guy comes up to you with a clipboard and says: "Hi, I'm from your information ministry and I would like to ask you a few questions about how you feel about us." So you know it's a loyalty check.
Under those circumstances, 73% of Iranians said they did not like the regime and wanted it changed. So the real number, a friend of mine said, must be 99%. If you get 73% with that method,
it's obvious that the real number is higher. So, they know that their people hate them. There's never been any doubt about that."
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Countdown reported on a confidential poll in Iran that claimed, 69% of the Iranians do not recognize the nuclear issue a matter of national aspiration and
86% do not believe that nuclear technology is worth a military conflict.