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Iran Policy Forum

On January 16, 2007 the United States Institute of Peace inaugurated its Iran Policy Forum, a group of government and non-governmental experts that will meet regularly to discuss current issues relating to Iran.

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Iran Policy Forum News

U.S.-Iran Relations
June 21, 2007

Suzanne Maloney, co-chair of the Iran Policy Forum, briefed Congress on the rising tensions in U.S.-Iran relations over Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon and Iran’s nuclear ambitions. The briefing was a part of the bipartisan Congressional briefing series sponsored by Congressmen Howard Berman (D-CA) and Chris Shays (R-CT).

 More USIP Congressional briefings and testimonies

USIP and PIPA Give Advance Briefing on Unprecedented In-Depth Poll of Iranians
January 16, 2007

During this meeting, USIP and the Program on International Policy Attitudes (PIPA) conducted a briefing on new data from their survey of Iranian public opinion. This survey, fielded in conjunction with Search for Common Ground and an Iranian research agency, breaks much new ground and covers a wide array of international policy issues. Public opinion polling in Iran that is fully available to international audiences is rare. This survey is based on a nationally representative sample of 1,000 persons obtained through in-depth, in-person interviews, and the methods and questionnaire are fully documented. During this meeting, PIPA presented top-line results of this unique contribution to ongoing policy debates about Iran.

In coming months, USIP and PIPA will be authoring further analyses detailing the national regional findings of this survey on vital issues such as Iran’s nuclear program, attitudes toward the U.S. and international institutions such as the UN and the IAEA, among others.

 The power point slides of this presentation are available here.

 The survey methods are available for download here.

For information released by PIPA and Search for Common Ground, see www.WorldPublicOpinion.org.

Publications

• Is Iran Facing an Economic Crisis?
  USIPeace Briefing, May 2007
• Who Rules Ahmadinejad’s Iran?
  USIPeace Briefing, April 2007
• "American and Iranian Public Opinion: The Quest for Common Grounds," by Clifford Grammich and Christine Fair, Journal of South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (Spring 2007, Vol XXX, No.3).