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Article: IRAN: YOUTH SUPPORT ESSENTIAL FOR VICTORY.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)(Polling Data)
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- IPR Strategic Business Information Database
- Article date:
- June 11, 2001
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About 66 percent of the Iranian population is above the age of 15, or old enough to vote, and it is estimated that at least half the population is under 30. Moreover, 69 percent of the voters in the 15-24-year-old range favored the incumbent, President Mohammad Khatami, according to a pre-election poll of 500 Tehran voters conducted by Zogby International. All of the country's opinion-makers and political leaders recognized the importance of the large block of youth voters, and the presidential candidates tried to appeal to them. Khatami dropped by a 1 June meeting of the Office for Strengthening Unity, which is the country's biggest pro-Khatami student group, and told the ...