Just 27% of Americans approve of Iran strikes, poll finds

[ancianita]

Source: The Guardian

Only one in four Americans approves of the US strikes that killed Iran’s leader on Saturday, while about half — including one in four Republicans — believe Trump is too willing to use military force, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll that concluded on Sunday.

About 27% of respondents said they approved of the strikes, while 43% disapproved and 29% were not sure. About nine in 10 respondents said they had heard at least a little about the strikes, which began early on Saturday.

About 56% of Americans think Trump, who has also ordered strikes in Venezuela, Syria and Nigeria in recent months, is too willing to use military force to advance US interests. The vast majority of Democrats - 87% - held this view, as did 23% of Republicans and 60% of people who don’t identify with either political party.

The poll, which began on Saturday after the strikes got underway, gathered responses online from 1,282 US adults nationwide. It had a margin of error of three percentage points.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2026/mar/01/us-israel-war-on-iran-ayatollah-ali-khamenei-i-dead-latest-reports?filterKeyEvents=false&page=with%3Ablock-69a4940c8f0863f6a3eff59f#block-69a4940c8f0863f6a3eff59f

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[SoFlaBro]

1. That's a BUNCH of those MAGA motherfuckers still in the Orange Bastard fucking camp.

[ancianita]

4. Indeed, though the poll might not represent all his voters. Some of this group might have forgotten that

in his first term, Trump blew up the Iranian Agreement that included inspections by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the primary international body that sends inspectors to nuclear facilities worldwide to ensure nuclear material is used only for peaceful purposes.

He had control then, but he wanted to do his usual create-a-problem-so-he-can-be-the-great-warrior-savior, and now in the felon's second term, here we are with dead innocent Iranians and dead U.S. military personnel.

[SoFlaBro]

11. Orange Bastard fucked it up because he is a piss-soaked shitbird.

[mdbl]

5. That's about it. They will support anything he says or does, no matter how bad it is.

[LiberalArkie]

2. The fool me once... Fool me twice.... Fool me 50 times and maybe I don't believe you

[ancianita]

12. lol they're way past 50 times

[UpInArms]

3. I saw a shift in the locals yesterday

when I was in town …

Hmmmmm

[modrepub]

6. Oil Markets Reopen @ 6PM EST

I suspect spot prices are going to go up significantly. Wonder how folks will feel as gas prices climb along with transportation costs?

I mean maybe a democratic friendly government will materialize in Iran from thin air before Monday, right? That’s what appears to be Trump and the Republican plan as of Saturday if I’m reading the POTUS posts correctly. I’m sure the M$M will be able to properly assess the reality, don’t ya think?

[ancianita]

7. Thanks.

Your read of the fallout is as good as I've encountered so far.

Let's see what new polling looks like in another week or two.

[progree]

8. The poll was taken before any U.S. deaths and wounded were reported

Now we've got 3 U.S. dead and 5 seriously wounded the latest I've read...

So it's not a zero U.S. casualties situation like the strikes on Iran last June, or the Maduro regime-change operation, that some may have expected again, so I will be watching for polls taken after that news.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

9. MaddowBlog-Why public skepticism of the offensive in Iran was inevitable -- and entirely Trump's fault

The president didn’t make the case for war. The resulting polling data was inevitable.

*Of course* the initial round of polling shows weak public support for the offensive in Iran:

The public didn’t want another war, and Trump never even tried to make the case. The results were inevitable. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

— Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2026-03-02T13:04:01.354Z

https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/why-public-skepticism-of-the-offensive-in-iran-was-inevitable-and-entirely-trumps-fault

As Donald Trump moved the nation closer to a military conflict with Iran, there was some quantifiable evidence that suggested the American mainstream was not prepared for war. A University of Maryland poll released two weeks ago, for example, found that only about 1 in 5 Americans (21%) expressed support for the United States initiating an attack on Iran.....

Those national surveys, however, were conducted before the U.S. military offensive began. Would public attitudes change after the bombs started falling? Evidently not. Reuters reported on its first poll, conducted with Ipsos, on the crisis.

Only one in four Americans approves of the U.S. strikes that killed Iran’s leader, while about half — including one in four Republicans — believe President Donald Trump is too willing to use military force, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll that concluded on Sunday.

Some 27% of respondents said they approved of the strikes, while 43% disapproved and 29% were not sure.

The same data found that a 56% majority of Americans think Trump is too willing to use military force to advance U.S. interests, which seems reasonable given the number of countries he’s attacked over the last year.....

For the White House, the survey data has to be discouraging, but if the president wants to know why exactly the American mainstream is not on board with the operation, he has no one to blame but himself.

Ahead of the U.S. offensive in Iraq in 2003, George W. Bush at least made the effort to prepare the nation for war. The president’s policy proved disastrous, but before launching the offensive he told the public what he was doing, why he was doing it, why he saw the mission as necessary and what he hoped to accomplish. While the failed policy ultimately proved wildly unpopular, when “shock and awe” got underway in Baghdad, polls showed strong public support.

Trump didn’t bother with any comparable efforts. Indeed, the Republican incumbent apparently didn’t see the point in informing the public about, or even trying to convince it of, the merits of his policy — to the extent that he has a policy beyond “drop bombs and hope it all works out.”

The president, in other words, didn’t make the case for war. The resulting polling data was inevitable.

[ancianita]

10. Awesome. Thank you.

I like the sound of inevitable when it comes to the felon's demise.