Majority of US voters think Iran war 'not worth it', new poll finds Submitted by MEE staff on Thu, 06/25/2026 - 18:07 The US deal with Iran has failed to inspire confidence in American voters who see it as a failure to achieve war objectives An attendee wears a hat with buttons featuring US President Donald Trump and US Vice President JD Vance during the Great American State Fair Kickoff Celebration on the National Mall on 24 June in Washington DC (Al Drago/Getty Images via AFP) Off Sixty percent of American voters think US military action against Iran was "not worth it", according to a national poll from Quinnipac University.  Public sentiment appears to have shifted sharply after the signing of the Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Iran, a pact to end hostilities for 60 days while the US and Iran negotiate terms for a permanent end to the war.  Voters, however, are split on the matter, with Democrats overwhelmingly feeling it wasn't worth it (93 percent) while 75 percent of Republicans felt the war was worth it. A majority of independents, 66 percent, felt the war was not worth it.  The scepticism extends to the diplomatic settlement itself, with the poll determining that 59 percent of American voters are either "not so confident" or "not confident at all" in the MoU.  Once again, Republicans had greater confidence in the deal, with 76 percent saying they were either "very" or "somewhat" confident the deal with Iran would work. On 28 February, US President Donald Trump, alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, began the US-Israeli war on Iran to " eliminate imminent threats from the Iranian regime ".