Thursday, December 19, 2013

Flash. David Ignatious conducts a comprehensive public opinion survey in Iran. All what you needed to know about Iranian public opinion preferences

"The public’s support for Rouhani stems in part from national fatigue after eight years of inflammatory former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. He seemed to delight in shocking the West with his anti-Israel diatribes, but for many Iranians he was an embarrassment. A half-dozen people I talked to here said the Ahmadinejad years are remembered for bad economic policies and corrupt favoritism for the power elite. "