Ayandeh (in Persian:آینده) is an
opinion poll
An opinion poll, often simply referred to as a survey or a poll (although strictly a poll is an actual election) is a human research survey of public opinion from a particular sample. Opinion polls are usually designed to represent the opinion ...
organisation in
Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...
that was closed down in 2002.
One of Ayandeh's directors,
Abbas Abdi
Abbas Abdi (; fa, عباس عبدی; born 1 October 1956) is one of Iran's most influential reformists, journalist, self-taught sociologist and social activist.
Biography
Abdi was born in 1956. He studied polymer engineering at Tehran Polytec ...
, was arrested in at his home on 4 November 2002, accused of "having received money from either the US polling firm Gallup or a foreign embassy".
Alert. Journalist Abdollah Nouri released but another journalist arrested
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claimed that this was part of "a crackdown by the hard-line judiciary on organisations conducting public opinion polls" at the time.