Poll: Most Americans believe US aggression against Iran was a ‘mistake’

A recent poll has found that most Americans believe that using the US military against Iran was a mistake, and that the war will make things worse in the United States.

According to an ABC News/Washington Post/Ipsos poll conducted using Ipsos’ KnowledgePanel, about 6 in 10 Americans say that it was a mistake to go to war against Iran, while just over one-third say it was the right decision.

The percentage of Americans who say the Iran war was a mistake (61%) is far higher than the 26% of Americans who said the US going to war with Iraq was a mistake in a March 2003 ABC/Post poll shortly after the US invasion of the Arab country, but far closer to the 64% who reached to this conclusion after it had gone on for nearly four years in January 2007.

Most Americans see potential risk in the US aggression against Iran, including an increased chance of the US economy slipping into a recession (60%) and weakening relationships with US allies (56%).

As gas prices have reached a four-year high because of the war, half of Americans expect gas prices to increase even more in the upcoming year, 4 in 10 say they are not as well off as they were when President Donald Trump returned to power and nearly a quarter say they are falling behind financially.

The poll also showed that few Americans, only 19%, say the US war in Iran this year has been successful, while 39% believe it has not been successful and 41% say it is too soon to tell.

Over three-quarters of Americans, 76%, had a negative reaction to Trump’s post threatening Iran in April in which he said “A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again,” if Iran did not make an agreement with the US. That includes a slim majority of Republicans (53%) who had a negative reaction to Trump’s post, along with 81% of independents and 91% of Democrats.

Also, by about a 2-to-1 margin, Americans say Trump’s actions on Iran are inconsistent (46%) rather than consistent (22%) with his 2024 presidential campaign position on the US getting involved in foreign wars, while 30% are not sure.

Nearly half of Americans see the US too supportive of Israel (47%), the highest compared to previous polling conducted by the Pew Research Center since 2012.

Most of Americans (52%) say Israel had too much influence on Trump’s decision to launch aggression against Iran.

Israel dragged US into war against Iran, State Department confirms

The US State Department has admitted that Israel pushed Washington into a war of aggression against Iran.

The US and Israel started a fresh round of aerial aggression on Iran on February 28, some eight months after they carried out unprovoked attacks on the country.

The attacks led to the martyrdom of Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei.

The aggression was launched as Tehran and Washington had held three rounds of indirect negotiations in the Omani capital of Muscat and the Swiss city of Geneva and planned to open technical talks in Vienna, Austria.

Iran began to swiftly retaliate against the strikes by launching barrages of missiles and drone attacks on the Israeli-occupied territories as well as on US bases and interests in regional countries.

On April 8, the United States and Iran agreed to a two-week ceasefire after Washington received a 10-point proposal from Tehran.

Israel's Maariv newspaper admitted that the US-Israeli war against the Islamic Republic has ended in a "decisive victory for Iran," with both the US and Israel conceding to a "strategic surrender" and retreating from the battlefield.

The Israeli newspaper emphasized that Iran has imposed a deal largely of its own design on the US, rejecting Washington's proposal.

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