BBC Poll: Iranians Backed Bush for U.S. President

According to a BBC international poll, Iranians favored President George W. Bush to win re-election as U.S. President by 52%, with only 42% supporting challenger John F. Kerry.

The BBC world service website recently released the results of their 2004 presidential poll. Of the sixteen linguistic ethnical groups surveyed, Persians were overwhelmingly the most supportive of President Bush. In fact, over fifty two percent of Iranians preferred Republican George W. Bush to challenger John Kerry who'd received a minuscule forty two percent of the vote. Thus, surprisingly, unlike in the United States where the presidential race was relegated to a couple of percentage points, in Iran - President Bush won by a landslide.

Numerous other sources of plausible acclaim have confirmed these results. Renowned intellectuals, as well as award-winning journalists have written pieces on this critical issue. For instance, Pulitzer Prize winner Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times who spent an entire week in the country recently wrote, "Finally, I've found a pro-American country. Everywhere I've gone in Iran, with one exception, people have been exceptionally friendly and fulsome in their praise for the United States, and often for President George W. Bush as well." Thomas Friedman another Pulitzer Prize winner and ardent critic of the war in Iraq wrote "young Iranians are loving anything their government hates, such as Mr. Bush, and hating anything their government loves. Iran . . . is the ultimate red state."

Source: The Persian Journal

This shows the Iranians are not happy with their radical Islamic government and are happy with President Bush's calls for a free Iran.

Originally posted by djohnsto77
This shows the Iranians are not happy with their radical Islamic government and are happy with President Bush's calls for a free Iran.

The radical Islamic government of Iran also backed Bush as his reelection was in their best interests and they were happy that Bush removed their biggest enemy from power.

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TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - The head of Iran's security council said Tuesday the re-election of President George W. Bush would be in Tehran's best interests, despite the administration's axis of evil label, accusations Iran harbours al-Qaida terrorists and threats of sanctions over the country's nuclear ambitions.....

.....Iranian political analyst Mohsen Mofidi said ousting the Taliban and Saddam was the "biggest service any administration could have done for Iran."

And Bush, he said, has learned from his mistakes.

"The experience of two wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and the responsibility Bush had will make it a very remote possibility for him to risk attacking a much bigger and more powerful country like Iran," he said.

This shows the Iranians are not happy with their radical Islamic government and are happy with President Bush's calls for a free Iran.

Trust you to make to make up conclusions that have nothing to do with the original article. All that shows that 52% of those of Iranian descent surveyed on a BBC poll, voted for Bush. That does not represent the Iranian people of Iran.

Further a vote for Bush, does not mean they are voting for an invasion of Iran. It, disturbs me, that you need to be told something so obvious.

[edit on 14-2-2005 by Indigo_Child]