Posted on 03/12/2021 4:33:18 AM PST by Kaslin
The big headline of Kayhan Daily on Saturday, February 27, 2021 read: "73% of the People Support the Parliament's Law to Lift the Sanctions." This is a quote from the University of Maryland's poll survey on the same page. Kayhan Daily (Ali Khamenei's Pravda) cites Western institutions only in cases where the issue is 100% in favor of the Iranian regime in terms of propaganda. The question is why such polls are not conducted by domestic centers and the credit of their research does not reach domestic institutions? Also, why does the University of Maryland conduct polls only when negotiations between the United States and the Islamic Republic are underway or are to take place, and on issues limited to the narratives and discourses of the regime?
Most Western think-tanks, universities, and media outlets over the past four decades, and especially under Trump, have justified the Islamic Republic's policies, normalizing the regime's behavior and refraining from covering repression in Iran compared to other countries. Compare covering the Khashoggi case with the murder of Zahra Kazemi and Sattar Beheshti by the Western media: a mountain of news against a pebble. But some of these centers have become propagandists of the Islamic Republic not just because of their enmity toward Trump; rather, their programs and products are supplied from Tehran, and the Islamist regime pays for them.
The University of Maryland's Center for International and Security Studies is one of them. The site of this center, as well as the IranPoll Institute, which co-conducted the survey, is also silent about its funding sources. In today's world, a lack of transparency means corruption. If the funds of these centers are not financed from dirty money, the Alavi Foundation and exchange offices in Tehran, why are their sources not announced?
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I’m guessing the U of M has changed a little since I took their classes while stationed overseas in the mid-70s. I could probably rustle up an old transcript to burn in rebellion...
“Beware the Turtle”. I worked in Ocean City, MD the summer of 1978 and had 3 U of M guys as roommates. All conservatives. A lot has happened since then.
My time at Maryland was during the Vietnam war. It was a hotbed bed of leftism then.
That’s interesting. I was stationed in Sicily in 74/75 and the UofM would send instructors over to hold real, sitdown classes. They sent a hot blond to teach a business course I took. A tall, lanky, base Huey pilot, fresh in from Vietnam, grabbed her right up. Got to be a very serious relationship. He was a good guy, kind of wild and crazy, and they seemed good together. LOL...I watched him hover an H-1 right into a base hanger. I imagine the enlisteds were picking stuff out of the overhead trusses forever.
Ahhh...the good old days.
SDS was all over the campus along with military recruiters.
I almost signed up for the marines. Until my parents raised hell.
No daughter of theirs etc....
“I worked in Ocean City, MD the summer of 1978 “
1985 here, good times!
The best times! Ocean City in the 80’s was the ultimate. I worked at the Hurricane Night Club at 63rd. Does that ring a bell?
Ocean City in the 80’s was the ultimate. ——————-
Yes rings a loud bell. Awesome times.
I worked on the boardwalk at souvenir city. Lived on Robins drive (28th street).
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