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Posted on 07/28/2026 11:57:36 AM PDT by MeanWestTexan
Around 40% of Iranians consider the US and Israeli military action against the Islamic Republic a “humanitarian intervention,” according to a survey of 31,450 Iranians aged 15 or older living in the country, conducted by the Netherlands-based non-profit research foundation The Group for Analyzing and Measuring Attitudes in Iran (GAMAAN).
The survey, titled “Iranians’ Attitudes Toward the 2026 Protests and War,” collected responses from Iranians across the country from June 20 to June 27, 2026, in collaboration with Psiphon, Lantern, and MahsaNet. The survey reports an approximate 95% credibility level with a conservative credibility interval of plus or minus three percentage points.
Though a significant portion of those surveyed viewed Israeli and American military action positively, 48% disagreed with the interpretation that it had been a form of “humanitarian intervention,” with 42% viewing the strikes as “military aggression against Iran.”
The concept of foreign military intervention as a means of effecting social change was highly divisive, with only 38% of respondents supporting such action both before the war and at the time of the survey. Additionally, 27% said they had opposed military intervention both before and at the time of the survey, though 4% moved from opposition to support.
The course of the war changed the opinions of 8% of respondents positively, reflecting those who previously disagreed with such action but came to support the strikes by the time they were surveyed.
Though not all may support the strikes, 60% admitted to feeling satisfied that the Islamic Republic had been weakened during the war, and 52% admitted they were not saddened by the assassination of former supreme leader Ali Khamenei in February.
Nearly a quarter (24%) said they had no opinion on his death, while a surprising 24% said they were saddened. Previous surveys demonstrated that 80%-92% of the Iranian
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Drop leaflets. Then drop guns.
I believe that number is most likely higher than what is bveing reported. Fear guides the stifling of the true numbers that hate their nations leadership, who actually care not about the lives of their citizens. For them life is not important at all.
> according to a survey of 31,450 Iranians aged 15 or older living in the country <
Which country? At first I assumed it was Iran, and not some other country that has many Iranian refugees. Could it be Israel?
If it is Iran, then I’m amazed that such a survey is even possible. It would be like getting an honest survey out of Stalin’s USSR.
In Iran.
I, too, am surprised.
But Iran gave up on jamming StarLink, and it’s heavily saturated with bases.
Consider the source, I smelled 100% Bull stuff even before I saw the source.
I do not believe this is a legit poll.
Pronto.
I’m taking this with a grain of salt.
“Consider the source, I smelled 100% Bull stuff even before I saw the source.”
The Netherlands-based non-profit research foundation The Group for Analyzing and Measuring Attitudes in Iran (GAMAAN) is unreliable? Do tell.
GAMAAN, the Group for Analyzing and Measuring Attitudes in Iran, is an independent, non-profit research foundation registered in the Netherlands. We study Iranians’ attitudes towards different social and political topics.
GAMAAN conducts online surveys to extract the (real) opinions of Iranians about sensitive topics. The rationale for GAMAAN’s innovative approach, spreading surveys on a large variety of digital channels and collaborating with VPN providers, is the fact that conventional survey modes like face-to-face and telephone interviewing cannot yield valid results in the existing Iranian context. To obtain representative samples, we use matching and weighting methods; we then compare our results with external data and other survey institutes’ results for non-sensitive questions. In this way, we strive to understand the extent to which our results can be said to be representative.
In recognition of this work, GAMAAN was awarded the Market Research Society’s President’s Medal in London in 2022 for making an “extraordinary contribution to research.” Between 2025 and 2027, GAMAAN’s founder and director, Dr. Ammar Maleki, serves as Iran’s national representative to the World Association of Public Opinion Research (WAPOR).
GAMAAN operates under the supervision of a board that includes its founder and director, Dr. Ammar Maleki, who also holds an academic appointment as assistant professor of comparative politics at Tilburg University, and Dr. Pooyan Tamimi Arab, associate professor of secular and religious studies at Utrecht University.
“I do not believe this is a legit poll.”
Oh, noes!
And we care so much about your opinion!
Please do tell what was wrong with the methodology. The paper is here:
Joke Of The Week: :Over half of Iranians view Netanyahu
positively, 40% see Israel-US strikes as ‘humanitarian’”
Iranians are more supportive of the bombing than Dims.
Sorry, Axis Sally, no one cares what you think.
Don’t you have to go bow to allah or something?
During WW2, Jews asked the State Dept to bomb the concentration camps as it would save over 100k of lives.
What most people don’t know is only 76 people survived Treblinka.
Over 1M were murdered in Treblinka.
I’m sure some Iranians are feeling the same way.
See who funds these gamaan polls. Do some research.
Even they know their results are inaccurate.
“we strive to understand the extent to which our results can be said to be representative”
any time you have to have to use “matching and weighting methods” to make it line up with other survey institutes’ results you know your raw data is defective.
Do tell us who funds GAMAAN.
What I could find is:
GAMAAN (Group for Analyzing and Measuring Attitudes in Iran) is a Netherlands-registered independent non-profit research foundation. It primarily relies on public donations and voluntary work, with one documented case of specific survey support linked to a U.S. government-funded organization; it has collaborations (especially for survey distribution) with entities that receive U.S. funding.
GAMAAN was founded around 2019 by Dr. Ammar Maleki (assistant professor of comparative politics at Tilburg University; founder and director) and Dr. Pooyan Tamimi Arab (associate professor at Utrecht University). It describes itself as independent, conducts online surveys on Iranians’ social and political attitudes (using methods adapted for authoritarian contexts, including distribution via social media and VPNs), and has received academic recognition, such as the Market Research Society’s President’s Medal in 2022. Its site and statements emphasize that it often operates without a dedicated budget, conducts many projects voluntarily, and solicits public donations.
Documented Funding and Support
Public donations and voluntary work: GAMAAN’s website explicitly asks for donations to support more surveys. Statements from its director (e.g., on X/Twitter) and reports note that it has no specific budget and that many surveys are done independently and voluntarily. Some reports (e.g., the 2021 media survey) state they received no financial support.
Specific survey funding: The 2020 survey on Iranians’ attitudes toward religion was “financially supported by and carried out in cooperation with” Dr. Ladan Boroumand, co-founder and research director of the Abdorrahman Boroumand Center for Human Rights in Iran.
Abdorrahman Boroumand Center: This nonprofit (focused on documenting human rights issues in Iran and critical of the Islamic Republic) receives funding from private North American and European foundations (majority share historically), individual donors, and (since around 2015) some government sources. It is a partner of the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and has received NED grants. NED is a U.S. organization primarily funded by congressional appropriations.
No comprehensive public list of all GAMAAN donors or large ongoing institutional grants to the organization itself appears in available sources. Related academic work by the founders has involved university positions and grants (e.g., a Dutch Research Council/NWO Vidi grant for research on Iran’s secular shift).
Collaborations and Indirect Ties
GAMAAN collaborates with VPN providers (primarily Psiphon, and once Lantern) to help distribute surveys and reach respondents inside Iran while addressing self-censorship and sampling challenges. Psiphon has received substantial historical and ongoing funding from U.S. government programs (including State Department Internet Freedom initiatives, the Broadcasting Board of Governors/USAGM, and the Open Technology Fund).
It has also worked with or provided data to entities such as the Tony Blair Institute (which has received USAID funding) and, for survey circulation in some cases, outlets including Iran International and Voice of America Persian. These are distribution or partnership arrangements rather than confirmed direct operational funding of GAMAAN.
“any time you have to have to use “matching and weighting methods” to make it line up with other survey institutes’ results you know your raw data is defective.”
I believe it says they also asked non-controversial questions to see if their results (on these non-controversial questions) matched other polls to CONFIRM that their methodology works. It doesn’t change the results.
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