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Source: http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/09/thursday-promises-to-be-anothe/
Even If Reformers Win, Iranians Support Nuclear Program
(New York Times) Robert Wright - Even if the reformers miraculously swept into power, that wouldn't help much on the nuclear front. On the nuclear issue, opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi has been at least as hard line as President Ahmadinejad. According to an analysis by the University of Maryland's Program on International Policy Attitudes (PIPA) of several opinion polls conducted in Iran over the past year, the Iranian public isn't committed to getting the bomb. Given the choice between developing 1) nuclear weapons and nuclear energy, 2) nuclear energy only or 3) no nuclear technology, 55% of Iranians chose door number two, while only 38% wanted the bomb. But 86% of Iranians say that Iran should not "give up its nuclear activities regardless of the circumstances."