Survey
Iranian of the Year, 1998
Your choices as the most important people of the past year
Updated March 26, 1999
The Iranian
Comments from those who voted for...
* ... President
Khatami
* ... the
dissidents
* ... the
national soccer team
* ... the
reformist press
* ... film
director Majid Majidi
* ... Activist
Maryam Namazie
* ... Vice
President Abdollah Nuri
* ... Singer
Delkash
* ... Farah
Pahlavi
* ... ten
others
Last month emails were sent to more than 11,000 people on The Iranian
mailing list asking them to send in their choice as the Iranian of the
Year. For the second year in a row, President Khatami became the top choice.
He received 34 percent of the vote.
The second highest vote (25 percent) went collectively to Dariyush and
Parvaneh Foruhar, Mohammad Mokhtari, Mohammad Jafar Pouyandeh and other
slain dissidents. The Iranian national soccer team came in third (12 percent),
the moderate press in Iran fourth (6 percent), and film director Majid
Majidi fifth (4 percent). About a dozen others received the remaining votes.
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