Thursday
Feb042010
Latest Iran Video: What Does the Iranian Public Really Think? (4 February)
Thursday, February 4, 2010 at 19:24
Earlier today, I wrote --- somewhat in jest, somewhat in indignation --- about the claim to know "what the Iranian people really think" through the promotion of a set of old polls.
Those surveys were being resurrected in part for a two-panel seminar at the New American Foundation on Wednesday. The first panel features Steven Kull, the Director of WorldPublicOpinion.org, who carried out a poll in August-September 2009 and assessed this with 11 earlier polls (10 by the University of Tehran, 1 by a Canadian firm) in their latest assertions. He is joined by Jon Cohen, Director of Polling at The Washington Post. The second panel is made up of Flynt Leverett of the New America Foundation, Hooman Majd, a former translator for President Ahmadinejad and the author of The Ayatollah Begs to Differ, and Barbara Slavin of The Washington Times.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKG-hUyk1_0[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_a4KgvG-78[/youtube]
Those surveys were being resurrected in part for a two-panel seminar at the New American Foundation on Wednesday. The first panel features Steven Kull, the Director of WorldPublicOpinion.org, who carried out a poll in August-September 2009 and assessed this with 11 earlier polls (10 by the University of Tehran, 1 by a Canadian firm) in their latest assertions. He is joined by Jon Cohen, Director of Polling at The Washington Post. The second panel is made up of Flynt Leverett of the New America Foundation, Hooman Majd, a former translator for President Ahmadinejad and the author of The Ayatollah Begs to Differ, and Barbara Slavin of The Washington Times.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKG-hUyk1_0[/youtube]
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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_a4KgvG-78[/youtube]