{"id":5089,"date":"2026-06-20T04:01:42","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T04:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/houstonmovingjournal.com\/?p=5089"},"modified":"2026-06-20T04:01:42","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T04:01:42","slug":"poll-reveals-how-public-support-for-iran-war-compares-to-other-us-conflicts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/houstonmovingjournal.com\/?p=5089","title":{"rendered":"Poll reveals how public support for Iran war compares to other US conflicts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><div><div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5088\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/houstonmovingjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/9f14f3974ef6e4bb1c33e3fe114849dc.webp\" width=\"764\" srcset=\"https:\/\/houstonmovingjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/9f14f3974ef6e4bb1c33e3fe114849dc.webp 764w, https:\/\/houstonmovingjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/9f14f3974ef6e4bb1c33e3fe114849dc-300x170.webp 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 764px) 100vw, 764px\" \/><\/figure>\n <span>article<\/span><\/div> <div><div><p><span>A tourist boat passes near crude oil tankers, bulk carriers, and other vessels anchored off Qaboos Port in Muscat, Oman, on June 19, 2026. (Photo by Elke Scholiers\/Getty Images)<\/span> <!-- --><\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/houstonmovingjournal.com\/?p=5086\">Fry Pie Factory recalls pepperoni rolls for undeclared milk allergen<\/a><\/p> <!-- --><\/div><\/div> <!-- --><\/div> <!-- --> <!-- --><p><u>A recent poll by Gallup\u00a0<\/u>found that compared to other wars that the United States has been involved in, 34% said they approved of the military action being taken in Iran.\u00a0<\/p> <p>In comparison to other wars, Americans appear to be in less support of the war in Iran than any other war the country has been involved in the past.<\/p> <!-- --><p>Here\u2019s a look at the approval ratings for every recorded war the U.S. has been involved in:\u00a0<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/houstonmovingjournal.com\/?p=5082\">Texas hits record 14.4M jobs in May, outpacing national growth<\/a><\/p> <!-- --><div><\/div> <!-- --><div> <iframe allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-v-57eb5ac0=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/e.infogram.com\/b8c49797-1129-404e-b6b4-e965a8d1028c?src=embed\" title=\"\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe> <!-- --><\/div> <!-- --><h2>Initial support begins to wane<\/h2> <!-- --><p>Dig deeper:<\/p> <!-- --><p>One trend that Gallup found among participants in their poll was that their initial support for some wars started off high, but when asked again how they felt weeks or months later, support saw a significant decrease.\u00a0<\/p> <!-- --><p>What\u2019s more, the lower percentages of those follow-up polls are almost within the same range as the initial percentage of approval for the Iran war.\u00a0<\/p> <!-- --><p>By the numbers:<\/p> <!-- --><ul><li><span>Iran, 2026: 35% approval<\/span><\/li><li><span>Libya, 2011: 39% approval after follow-up (Initial approval rating: 47%)<\/span><\/li><li><span>Haiti, 1994: 36% approval after follow-up (Initial approval rating: 54%)<\/span><\/li><\/ul> <!-- --><p>The other side:<\/p> <!-- --><p>Gallup noted that it did not have an initial approval rating for the Iran war, but cited that Indeed\u2019s poll it conducted in March found an approval rating among registered voters at 40%.\u00a0<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/houstonmovingjournal.com\/?p=5077\">NW Houston: Common-law wife arrested for man\u2019s hit-and-run death<\/a><\/p> <!-- --> <!-- --> <!-- --> <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new Gallup poll found U.S. military action against Iran received lower public approval than most major military operations since the 1980s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5087,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-iran-war","category-world"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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