74 percent of Iranians don’t like Osama bin Laden

That’s according to an unprecedented new survey of Iranian public opinion by WorldPublicOpinion.org and Search for Common Ground: Their servers appear to have crashed, so I’ll just point out this item that appears to conflict with the overall finding that Iranians are “very concerned about the danger of terrorism, reject attacks against civilians overwhelmingly and ...

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That's according to an unprecedented new survey of Iranian public opinion by WorldPublicOpinion.org and Search for Common Ground:

That’s according to an unprecedented new survey of Iranian public opinion by WorldPublicOpinion.org and Search for Common Ground:

Their servers appear to have crashed, so I’ll just point out this item that appears to conflict with the overall finding that Iranians are “very concerned about the danger of terrorism, reject attacks against civilians overwhelmingly and share strongly negative views of Osama bin Laden”:

It is important to note, however, that slim majorities of Iranians feel that some Palestinian attacks on Israeli civilians are justified and view Hamas and Hezbollah favorably.

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