This one’s a laugh-out-loud example of sheer propaganda:
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says Iran’s economy will survive falling oil prices.
Iranian state television has quoted Ahmadinejad as saying the plummeting price of oil “will not cause any remarkable problems” to the economy.
He added in his remarks Sunday that the economy was self-reliant would be fine with an oil price of $5.
Really? Because international oil experts are of the opinion that Iran is in deep, deep trouble right now. Oil is under $50 a barrel. They say Iran needs it to be at least $70/bbl to break even, and some put it as high as $100/bbl.
Meanwhile, IRNA says that Mad Mahmoud is Iran’s most popular politician. However, this is the Iranian state media, so one has to wonder exactly how revealing the poll can be.
Based on an opinion poll President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is the most popular political figure in the Iranian society.
The poll, conducted by IRNA Research and News Analysis Department at the 15th Tehran International Press and News Agencies Exhibition from November 20-21, showed that 55.69 percent of respondents would vote to President Ahmadinejad in the next year 10th presidential elections.
When IRNA breaks out the polls stats, you just have to laugh:
Nine (three percent) of the respondents were managing director of the press, 33 people (11 percent) journalism experts, 147 people (49%) were reporters, 48 people (16%) were employees, 36 people (12%) were in charge of pavilions and 27 people (nine percent) were graphists and photographers/photojournalists.
What did they do? Poll their own staff?
Detailed report on the opinion poll will be made available on IRNA website in two weeks’ time.
More detailed than that? What, are we going to learn what they ate for breakfast that morning?