{"id":26817,"date":"2013-02-09T16:53:06","date_gmt":"2013-02-09T15:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/detail\/2013\/02\/09\/288120\/iranians-blame-us-for-sanctions-poll\/"},"modified":"2013-02-09T16:53:06","modified_gmt":"2013-02-09T15:53:06","slug":"iranians-blame-us-for-sanctions-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/iranians-blame-us-for-sanctions-poll\/","title":{"rendered":"Iranians blame US for sanctions: Poll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span id=\"ctl00_body_spnDetail\">File photo shows Iran President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (2nd L) and Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi (C) visiting Tehran Research Reactor.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"divDetailBody\">\n<p>The results of a recent opinion poll suggest that the majority of Iranians blame the US for imposing sanctions against the country and still support the Islamic Republic&#8217;s nuclear energy Program.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 1,000 Iranian adults responded to the poll, which was conducted by the Gallup institute in December 2012, the US daily <em>Washington Post<\/em> reported Friday.<\/p>\n<p>According to the results of the poll, Iranians hold the US government as the main responsible for imposing sanctions against their country.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Asked whether Iran should continue to develop its nuclear energy capabilities given the sanctions against the country, almost two-thirds of respondents, namely 63 percent, said yes. Only 17 percent said no while 19 percent said they didn\u2019t know or declined to answer.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\nThe United States, Israel and some of their allies have falsely accused Iran of pursuing non-civilian objectives in its nuclear energy program.<\/p>\n<p>Under the unfounded allegation, the US and certain other countries have imposed sanctions against the Islamic Republic.<\/p>\n<p>Iran has vehemently rejected the allegations against its nuclear energy program, arguing that as a committed signatory to the Non-Proliferation Treaty and a member of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), it is entitled to use nuclear technology for peaceful purposes.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the IAEA has conducted numerous inspections of Iran&#8217;s nuclear facilities but has never found any evidence showing that Tehran\u2019s nuclear energy program has been diverted toward military objectives.<\/p>\n<p>AR\/SS<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pixel.quantserve.com\/pixel\/p-89EKCgBk8MZdE.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span>File photo shows Iran President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (2nd L) and Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi (C) visiting Tehran Research Reactor.<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The results of a recent opinion poll suggest that the majority of Iranians blame the US for imposing sanctions against the country and still support the Islamic Republic&#8217;s nuclear energy Program.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 1,000 Iranian adults responded to the poll, which was conducted by the Gallup institute in December 2012, the US daily <em>Washington Post<\/em> reported Friday.<\/p>\n<p>According to the results of the poll, Iranians hold the US government as the main responsible for imposing sanctions against their country.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Asked whether Iran should continue to develop its nuclear energy capabilities given the sanctions against the country, almost two-thirds of respondents, namely 63 percent, said yes. Only 17 percent said no while 19 percent said they didn&rsquo;t know or declined to answer.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\nThe United States, Israel and some of their allies have falsely accused Iran of pursuing non-civilian objectives in its nuclear energy program.<\/p>\n<p>Under the unfounded allegation, the US and certain other countries have imposed sanctions against the Islamic Republic.<\/p>\n<p>Iran has vehemently rejected the allegations against its nuclear energy program, arguing that as a committed signatory to the Non-Proliferation Treaty and a member of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), it is entitled to use nuclear technology for peaceful purposes.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the IAEA has conducted numerous inspections of Iran&#8217;s nuclear facilities but has never found any evidence showing that Tehran&rsquo;s nuclear energy program has been diverted toward military objectives.<\/p>\n<p>AR\/SS<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pixel.quantserve.com\/pixel\/p-89EKCgBk8MZdE.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1213,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-26817","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}