96% Will Vote ‘No’ to the Islamic Republic
» According to a Poll by Blogger Mehdi Khazali
Mehdi Khazali has also stressed in his poll that if again a referendum was held on the nature of the state in Iran, he would vote for the Islamic Republic, a vote that is different from 96 percent of his audience.
Khazali’s blog has been filtered out (i.e. denied access) but he did manage to post the results of this poll for a week between April 6 to 13 this year under the title of “Islamic Republic: Yes or No?” According to the blog, the purpose of the poll was to acquire the views of those born after the victory of the Islamic revolution in 1979.
Based on the poll, about 4,017 people participated in the survey of which 3,889, i.e. 96.8 percent, voted negatively for the Islamic Republic and only 128 people, i.e. 3.2 percent voted for it.
During the time the survey was posted on the blog and it was accessible to Internet users, 668,343 individuals accessed the site and viewed the results of the poll.