WASHINGTON: Just one in four Americans believes the war with Iran was worth its costs and a majority worry that a truce with Tehran is unlikely to last, a Reuters/Ipsos poll found.
The five-day poll, which closed on Monday, also showed the war weighing heavily on President Donald Trump’s popularity, with his approval rating dropping to 34 percent, a return to the lowest level of the Republican’s second term that was last touched in an April survey.
Only 23 percent of Americans — including just half of Republicans — think the US is now in a stronger position with Iran compared with its position before the war, the poll found.
Some 35 percent of respondents think it is in a weaker position. The rest said they were not sure or that the US position was about the same as before.
Trump and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian signed a preliminary deal on June 17 that would reopen oil and gas shipping lanes that were frozen by the conflict, while easing US-led economic pressure on Iran.
