"Our enemies assume that they are able to corner Iran in a weak position with these sanctions," he told IRIB earlier this week.
But contrary to Ahmadinejad's defiant stance, Iranians overwhelmingly backed the poll's option [ http://www.rferl.org/content/iran-state-tv-blames-hackers-antinuclear-poll/24636478.html ] for "giving up uranium enrichment in return of the gradual removal of sanctions." Only 20 percent of respondents said they supported closing the Strait of Hormuz, the passage for oil shipments from the Persian Gulf, in retaliation.