Nearly half of Americans think Iran war will go on for a year or beyond from now: Poll

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Close to half of Americans believe the Iran war will stretch a year or beyond from now, according to a new poll, as tensions reignite between Washington and Tehran.

In a poll from The Economist/YouGov, 46 percent of respondents said the war will go on “a year or more” from now. Another 46 percent said the war will go on for “more than a month but less than a year” from now.

Six percent said the war will go on for “more than a week but less than a month” and 2 percent said the conflict has “a week or less” left.

On Tuesday, President Trump said he wasn’t seeking negotiations with Tehran at that moment. In an interview with Fox News, Trump lamented that the Iranian government was “evil” and labeled the new Iranian delegation as “the ones that are stopping a deal.”

Earlier this week, Trump said that the U.S.’s naval blockade on the Strait of Hormuz would be back in place as the U.S. and Iran battled for control of the waterway following exchanged strikes over the weekend.

“The Hormuz Strait is OPEN, and will remain OPEN, with or without Iran,” Trump said Monday on Truth Social. “We are reinstating the THE IRANIAN BLOCKADE, so named because it is only stopping Iran’s ships or customers from entering or leaving.”

“All other countries will have fair and open use of the Strait,” he said, also saying that the U.S. would be called “the Guardian of the Hormuz Strait.”

The war with Iran is nearing the five month-mark, with the conflict stressing the global economy and raising gas and oil prices. It has also been poorly received by Americans in recent polling.

In The Economist/YouGov poll, 55 percent of respondents said the U.S. should stop attacking Iran, while 27 percent were in favor of continued attacks. Eighteen percent were unsure about continued attacks.

The Economist/YouGov poll took place from July 10 to 13, featuring 1,616 respondents and plus or minus 3.3 percentage points as its margin of error.

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