Despite Trump rhetoric, US public want peace deal with Iran: Poll
A new poll in the United States has found overwhelming public support for a fresh peace deal with Iran and a huge rejection of military intervention by Washington.
The University of Maryland's esteemed Critical Issues Poll found that 69% of Americans want, "a negotiated agreement limiting Iran's nuclear program to peaceful ends with stringent monitoring". Furthermore, just 14% supported, "military action in an attempt to destroy Iran's nuclear program". 18% expressed no opinion on the matter.
Such a huge domestic rejection of war with Iran contrasts sharply with US President Donald Trump's near-daily open or veiled threats towards the country born out of the 1979 popular Iranian Islamic revolution.
We have two courses, there are only two courses. There aren't three or four or five, there's two.
There's a friendly and a non friendly, and the non friendly is a violent course, and I don't want that.
I'll say it upfront, I don't want that, but they have to get moving.
US President, Donald Trump
Analysts point out that the American public's widespread resistance against war with Iran goes back years.
After the murder of Soleimani, we saw in the United States a real fear that people were going to be sent to die for a war that they had no interest in.
So people did take to the streets and say that we absolutely want no war with Iran. Why would we ever go to such a war?
There's no precedent that it's, you know, protecting our interests.
It would be a totally offensive war in the minds of millions of people in this country.
Ben Zinevich, Party for Socialism and Liberation
Many wonder if Trump's diplomatic overtures are sincere, or if he will simply heed the public's obvious democratic will, or if he will return to his duplicitous and violent anti-Iran policy.
I think that people are pretty hesitant to embrace a Trump peace deal making administration; it's hard for us to see that he suddenly wants to put the kibosh on any longstanding feuds.
There's usually a sort of honeymoon period when it comes to wars, and maybe we would see something like that, God forbid.
But ultimately, people would come to the understanding that this benefits no one but the Pentagon and Wall Street and anybody seeking to overthrow Iran, and so I think that we just have to keep speaking out and calling for peace and cooperation.
Ben Zinevich, Party for Socialism and Liberation
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