Over 15,800 Iranians of voting age across 31 provinces took part in the fourth anonymous study run by the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance. The last one was in 2015.
It shows a sharp uptick in demands for secular rule, up from 31 per cent to 73 per cent, indicating the push for secularism will probably grow in coming years.
The number of those actively objecting to the imposition of the mandatory hijab increased from 15.7 per cent to 34.4 per cent, while 38 per cent said they are not against people who break the hijab laws, up from 10.6 per cent.
A massive 85 per cent of those surveyed said Iranians have become less religious compared to five years ago, with only seven per cent claiming to have become more religious.
The biggest enemy of the Islamic republic of Iran isn’t USA or Israel or whatever, it is their own population, about 80% of it lol.
The vast majority of people dont get what they want..not when it comes to who controls things and where the money goes. Same in Iran as it is in almost every country including the one I am in.
It’s a damn shame people like Mahsa Amini had to die for what the Iranian believe in while the Iranian regime continues executing people in stadiums all in the name of sharia.
Iran in my personal opinion is the biggest tragedy in the Middle East. It’s a nation that is capable of so much but kept down by their religious fanatics.
At this point, the only people in favor of Iran’s religious rulers are terrorists and the Russian government, who ironically, are also terrorists.
If they want it theyre going to have to make it themselves.
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A forced theocracy tends to do that.
I think the Iranians need some Israeli assistance
too bad they wanted the exact opposite in the 70s
There have been polls before that have found similar results, but what strikes me as odd with this one is that according to the article this was the outcome of a **state-run** poll. I’m wondering how the regime presents/skews the results domestically.
Islamic terrorism and religious believes has destroyed Iran so much.
There’s something that seems to be in the zeitgeist in Iran more than other Muslim countries… a stronger line of independent thought that just won’t go away, despite the repressive institutions that are always at the helm
Get rid of the Ayatollahs so the good people of Iran can have a democratic republic and you have balance again in the region.
This is very strange. How did the Telegraph get this poll result? Would the iranian government publish a result so unfavorable to the government? And wat iranian in their right mind would say this to an iranian government pollster, regardless of any claims to anonymity? This is ringing my bullshit detector in a lot of ways.
Considering how easy it was for the Iranian government to find plenty of counter-protesters and brutality enforcers to bus in from outlying regions into Tehran during the hijab protests, I find this poll a bit hard to believe.
Did they conduct this survey across the entire nation with random sampling based upon the actual distributed population, or did they only conduct it over telephone or Internet with Iranians who have access to such things who are going to of course be concentrated in Tehran and be of the more liberal/educated variety ?
If the *entire nation* was at 80% against, the regime would fall in days. That hasn’t happened despite many many protests over the past decades, suggesting that this is a biased poll that only collected data on a subsample of Iranians.
> Almost three-quarters of Iranians want a secular government instead of a theocratic dictatorship
> The survey also revealed that less than one in 10 people think women should be forced to wear a hijab.
I don’t think I’d have guessed that those numbers are that high and low, respectively, but if they’re accurate, then that’s great, and I can only hope the Iranians get what they want eventually.
By the way, does anyone here happen to know what the equivalent poll numbers are in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar etc.? My impression is that religion is more important to the culture in countries like those others I mentioned than to Iranian culture, but I don’t have a great overview of this.
Do you think they’d like a do over for the American hostages they took in 1979? I think so.
Well, of course. Look what Islam did to Persia. Their alphabet got kidnapped, their women are being shot on the streets, their national religion (Zoroastrians) got persecuted to its almost death, their cultural clothes are expected to substituted by burqas, the Imams pillage the country’s riches and exploit it, their tax money goes to funding terrorist groups that destabilize the Middle East… I could continue this all day long. May one day the people of Iran honor Mahsa Amini’s death ✊🇮🇷. Persians are the most beautiful and kind people I’ve ever met.
Free Iran
Theocracy is a world wide problem. Most societies want secular government and not religious leaders running their country.
Well then, you’re going to have to overthrow your government then!
This is refreshing and unexpected to hear. Long, bumpy road ahead.
I met so many over friendly Iranians when I was in Montréal. It is such a shame that their country is lead by those zealots. I really wish Iranians take back their country one day.
I’m an Israeli and hope I’ll live to see times of peace in Iran and with Iran. Met many Persians in my travels around the world and I’m fascinated by their culture and history.
Yeah that’s the deal with authoritarian regimes… they stick around even after you don’t want them anymore
*COUGH* *CPAC* *COUGH*
Iran is kind of like what will happen if we let the MAGAs run the country. Just a small collective of garbage people with the rest stuck with them.
I personally think that persians historicaly are very special people, yet in a very difficult political and religious situation. I truely hope that one day we can just do business with them just like we did for thousands of years. There are so many things I would love to explore in Iran… young iranian, do you see us westerners as the enemy?
I know a dude from Iran. Moved here with his wife and 2 daughters in 2006 because he was run out of the country for not being Muslim. He was a carpenter, and cabinet maker who owned his own successful business. He arrived one day to see that it was boarded up and shut by the government. His father was dragged behind a tractor for miles. All because they were practicing the Christian faith. He moved to the U.S. and became a citizen the literal day he was eligible. Legitimately one of the most hard working, kind, honest dudes I’ve ever met. Absolutely loved working with the man.
And that’s not to say that being Muslim is bad, I’m just giving an example of the intolerance of the Iranian government. I’d be willing to bet the majority of the Iranian population are pretty similar to my friend. Great people who just want to work hard and prosper.
Islam conquering Persia was one of the greatest tragedy in human history.
Ancient civilization with huge potential to contribute to the civilization it was one of the founding fathers of.
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***The Telegraph reports:***
Almost three-quarters of Iranians want a secular government instead of a theocratic dictatorship, an anonymous state-run poll has revealed.
The survey also revealed that less than one in 10 people think women should be forced to wear a hijab.
The poll suggests a major shift in attitudes towards Iran’s religious regime has occurred since the 2022 Women, Life, Freedom uprising.
The movement saw protests erupt across the country after the death in morality-police custody of[ 22-year-old Mahsa Amini](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2022/09/16/iranian-woman-dies-beating-morality-police-not-wearing-headscarf/), arrested for the improper use of her hijab.
Over 15,800 Iranians of voting age across 31 provinces took part in the fourth anonymous study run by the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance. The last one was in 2015.
It shows a sharp uptick in demands for secular rule, up from 31 per cent to 73 per cent, indicating the push for secularism will probably grow in coming years.
Only 7.9 per cent of respondents said they agree [women must be made to wear hijab](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2022/09/20/watch-women-burn-hijabs-cut-hair-protest-mahsa-amini-death/), down from 18.6 percent.
The number of those actively objecting to the imposition of the mandatory hijab increased from 15.7 per cent to 34.4 per cent, while 38 per cent said they are not against people who break the hijab laws, up from 10.6 per cent.
The major change in views on hijabs comes despite [ongoing morality-police patrols](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/09/30/mahsa-amini-reality-iranian-women/), undercover surveillance and bans on uncovered women from the likes of workplaces, social spaces and education.
A massive 85 per cent of those surveyed said Iranians have become less religious compared to five years ago, with only seven per cent claiming to have become more religious.
**Read more:** [**https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/02/25/iran-poll-no-hijab-more-freedom-secular-rule-less-religious/**](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/02/25/iran-poll-no-hijab-more-freedom-secular-rule-less-religious/)
The biggest enemy of the Islamic republic of Iran isn’t USA or Israel or whatever, it is their own population, about 80% of it lol.
The vast majority of people dont get what they want..not when it comes to who controls things and where the money goes. Same in Iran as it is in almost every country including the one I am in.
It’s a damn shame people like Mahsa Amini had to die for what the Iranian believe in while the Iranian regime continues executing people in stadiums all in the name of sharia.
Iran in my personal opinion is the biggest tragedy in the Middle East. It’s a nation that is capable of so much but kept down by their religious fanatics.
At this point, the only people in favor of Iran’s religious rulers are terrorists and the Russian government, who ironically, are also terrorists.
If they want it theyre going to have to make it themselves.
[removed]
A forced theocracy tends to do that.
I think the Iranians need some Israeli assistance
too bad they wanted the exact opposite in the 70s
There have been polls before that have found similar results, but what strikes me as odd with this one is that according to the article this was the outcome of a **state-run** poll. I’m wondering how the regime presents/skews the results domestically.
Islamic terrorism and religious believes has destroyed Iran so much.
There’s something that seems to be in the zeitgeist in Iran more than other Muslim countries… a stronger line of independent thought that just won’t go away, despite the repressive institutions that are always at the helm
Get rid of the Ayatollahs so the good people of Iran can have a democratic republic and you have balance again in the region.
This is very strange. How did the Telegraph get this poll result? Would the iranian government publish a result so unfavorable to the government? And wat iranian in their right mind would say this to an iranian government pollster, regardless of any claims to anonymity? This is ringing my bullshit detector in a lot of ways.
Considering how easy it was for the Iranian government to find plenty of counter-protesters and brutality enforcers to bus in from outlying regions into Tehran during the hijab protests, I find this poll a bit hard to believe.
Did they conduct this survey across the entire nation with random sampling based upon the actual distributed population, or did they only conduct it over telephone or Internet with Iranians who have access to such things who are going to of course be concentrated in Tehran and be of the more liberal/educated variety ?
If the *entire nation* was at 80% against, the regime would fall in days. That hasn’t happened despite many many protests over the past decades, suggesting that this is a biased poll that only collected data on a subsample of Iranians.
> Almost three-quarters of Iranians want a secular government instead of a theocratic dictatorship
> The survey also revealed that less than one in 10 people think women should be forced to wear a hijab.
I don’t think I’d have guessed that those numbers are that high and low, respectively, but if they’re accurate, then that’s great, and I can only hope the Iranians get what they want eventually.
By the way, does anyone here happen to know what the equivalent poll numbers are in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar etc.? My impression is that religion is more important to the culture in countries like those others I mentioned than to Iranian culture, but I don’t have a great overview of this.
Do you think they’d like a do over for the American hostages they took in 1979? I think so.
Well, of course. Look what Islam did to Persia. Their alphabet got kidnapped, their women are being shot on the streets, their national religion (Zoroastrians) got persecuted to its almost death, their cultural clothes are expected to substituted by burqas, the Imams pillage the country’s riches and exploit it, their tax money goes to funding terrorist groups that destabilize the Middle East… I could continue this all day long. May one day the people of Iran honor Mahsa Amini’s death ✊🇮🇷. Persians are the most beautiful and kind people I’ve ever met.
Free Iran
Theocracy is a world wide problem. Most societies want secular government and not religious leaders running their country.
Well then, you’re going to have to overthrow your government then!
This is refreshing and unexpected to hear. Long, bumpy road ahead.
I met so many over friendly Iranians when I was in Montréal. It is such a shame that their country is lead by those zealots. I really wish Iranians take back their country one day.
I’m an Israeli and hope I’ll live to see times of peace in Iran and with Iran. Met many Persians in my travels around the world and I’m fascinated by their culture and history.
Yeah that’s the deal with authoritarian regimes… they stick around even after you don’t want them anymore
*COUGH* *CPAC* *COUGH*
Iran is kind of like what will happen if we let the MAGAs run the country. Just a small collective of garbage people with the rest stuck with them.
I personally think that persians historicaly are very special people, yet in a very difficult political and religious situation. I truely hope that one day we can just do business with them just like we did for thousands of years. There are so many things I would love to explore in Iran… young iranian, do you see us westerners as the enemy?
I know a dude from Iran. Moved here with his wife and 2 daughters in 2006 because he was run out of the country for not being Muslim. He was a carpenter, and cabinet maker who owned his own successful business. He arrived one day to see that it was boarded up and shut by the government. His father was dragged behind a tractor for miles. All because they were practicing the Christian faith. He moved to the U.S. and became a citizen the literal day he was eligible. Legitimately one of the most hard working, kind, honest dudes I’ve ever met. Absolutely loved working with the man.
And that’s not to say that being Muslim is bad, I’m just giving an example of the intolerance of the Iranian government. I’d be willing to bet the majority of the Iranian population are pretty similar to my friend. Great people who just want to work hard and prosper.
Islam conquering Persia was one of the greatest tragedy in human history.
Ancient civilization with huge potential to contribute to the civilization it was one of the founding fathers of.