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45 percent of Iranians consider reform 'impossible'
Forty five per cent of Iranians think reforming the Islamic Republic is "impossible" and ninety four per cent are calling changing the present system, according to an opinion poll published Monday by pro-reforms newspaper "No Rooz", quoted by the Persian service of the BBC.You mean it sucks to virtually everybody? Asked what, in their opinion, President Mohammad Khatami should do in case he fails to respond to popular demands for reforms, fifty four per cent of the people, aged more than 15, questioned by the paper, said he should discuss openly his problems with the people, against 18 per cent urging him to resign and twenty per cent preferring he continue office until the end. As seventy per cent of the inhabitants of the Capital said they do not approve of the embattled Presidentâs policies, fifty five per cent of them said they are against his soft attitude, advising a firmer stand. "The results from latest polls are bell tolls for both the rulers of the present regime and President Khatami", commented Mr. Sadeq Saba, BBC's senior analyst of Iranian affairs. Iran Press isn't the most reliable source, and I'd distrust any poll that found 94% of everyone agreed on something. But even if that figure should be translated to read "a whole lot," it sounds like us Great Satans aren't the only ones "hatching plots" against the Theocratic Paradise. Posted by: Fred Pruitt 2002-07-02 |
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