Poll: Few Iranians see US favorably, despite Obama
By ALAN FRAM, Associated Press Writer Mon Jun 8, 12:42 pm ET
Yahoo News/AP EXCERPT:
WASHINGTON – Few Iranians have favorable opinions of the United States, a view that has changed little since the election of an American president
who has expressed a willingness to talk to Tehran, a rare poll of Iranian citizens showed Monday.
Even so, the survey shows Iranians continue to strongly want their country to adopt democratic institutions like free elections and a free press, the poll showed. There also remains a widespread willingness to stage unconditional negotiations with the U.S. following nearly three decades of diplomatic estrangement between the two countries.
Just 29 percent of Iranians said they have favorable views of the United States in the latest poll, which was conducted last month. In a similar survey in February 2008 — nearly a year before Barack Obama became president — 34 percent had positive opinions about the U.S.
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What? When that eeeeVil George W. Bush was in office MORE Iranians had positive opinions of the US?! That doesn't fit the narrative we've been fed.
By ALAN FRAM, Associated Press Writer Mon Jun 8, 12:42 pm ET
Yahoo News/AP EXCERPT:
WASHINGTON – Few Iranians have favorable opinions of the United States, a view that has changed little since the election of an American president
who has expressed a willingness to talk to Tehran, a rare poll of Iranian citizens showed Monday.
Even so, the survey shows Iranians continue to strongly want their country to adopt democratic institutions like free elections and a free press, the poll showed. There also remains a widespread willingness to stage unconditional negotiations with the U.S. following nearly three decades of diplomatic estrangement between the two countries.
Just 29 percent of Iranians said they have favorable views of the United States in the latest poll, which was conducted last month. In a similar survey in February 2008 — nearly a year before Barack Obama became president — 34 percent had positive opinions about the U.S.
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Uh... Who was president last year? Oh, yeah. George W. Bush...
What? When that eeeeVil George W. Bush was in office MORE Iranians had positive opinions of the US?! That doesn't fit the narrative we've been fed.
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} stridency coupled with obstinancy does not make an effective tool to convince people of the correctness of your views.
