The government has said for a long time that it's the "people's right" to have nuclear. However, in these past few years propaganda about the Iranian nuclear programme has been tied to a kind of "nationalism". These speeches about the country's "glory and success" have a kind of attractiveness for some people. And some believed that the government is just developing civil nuclear technology. What makes people start to suspect otherwise, is that they see the government going after it no matter what cost. As the economic situation gets harder and inflation rises, many people are blaming the situation on the effect of sanctions caused by these nuclear ambitions. The shopkeeper near my house is sure that the nuclear programme is at fault for the increasing price of rice.

I've heard some people say that if Israel and Pakistan have the bomb then we should have it too. Personally I'm against nuclear technology for any country whether they are a "free country" or not, but I'm more suspicious in a place with no free press.

For Iranian people the idea of "annihilation" was not created by Ahmadinejad; it's been regular state propaganda since Khomeini's times. But I think people see propaganda about the Palestine/ Israel conflict as a form of distraction from the economic problems. However, it doesn't mean that Iranian people are "pro-Israel"; most believe that they are occupiers. You have to keep in mind that regular people in Iran, under this long term propaganda, have no lucid idea about the literature of the Israel/ Palestinian issue. It would be hard to find just a small part of the population who knows what the one state solution or two state solutions are, for example. The community is not so reasonable about the issue, but it doesn't mean that they support Ahmadinejad's stance on the matter. In fact, not at all."