Insurrection, False Flags and the Vulnerable Underbelly of the Gulf
- Dagny
- 6 hours ago
- 18 min read
"The first casualty when war comes is truth."
Don't expect to be told the truth - especially when you are in a country that is currently at war.
Unless you have sources from many different people with many different mindsets you are unlikely to be forming a realistic picture of what is going on.
And no you can't just get the same thing from a bunch of people who are tapped into the same source. Multiple sources all spouting the same thing are equivalent to one source. That's how mockingbird media works. Whether its friends or social media or paid talking heads - they all are functionally one source.
I hear it from diverse sources from other sides of the numerous fences. I pay attention to different people who would gladly kill each other given the chance. International sources, domestic sources, and from countries all over the world. I see that as my unpaid (and thus un-bought) job.
That being said, I bring this to your attention with the hope that you will not shoot the messenger. Judge for your self what makes sense in the real world.
The Desalination Plants
Israel and the United States were the first to begin destroying desalination plants in Iran.
The country's population was already facing dire water shortages before the war.
The Epstein coalition began targeting water, having attacked a desalination plant on the Iranian island of Qeshm the day before. In retaliation, Iran struck a desalination plant in Bahrain with a drone.
For comparison Qatar gets 100% of its drinking water from desalination, Kuwait and Bahrain 90%, Oman slightly less – 86%, and Saudi Arabia 70%. Iran is in a much better situation, excluding the southern regions of the country. Nevertheless, 30% of its water goes through desalination plants.
When asked whether the US attacked the desalination plant in Iran, President Trump responded that the Iranians are "some of the most evil people on earth." "They behead babies, they dismember women..." "I don't know anything about the desalination plant except that they complain."
⚠️Btw. hitting water supplies is a war crime.
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Nebulator:
Day Seven and we've had a US strike on Iranian desalinization plants, which just about guarantees a counter-strike by Tehran on similar facilities in the Gulf, which will hurt US "allies" far more. Already the Gulf states are facing shortages of food because no ships are coming in, and had to stop oil and gas production because no ships are going out.
Trump, meanwhile, appears convinced he's on the cusp of victory and is already talking about how "Cuba is next." Either he knows something we don't, or he's dangerously delusional. Meanwhile, the globalists are laying the groundwork for taking power later this year.
Israeli media immediately tried to pin the blame on the UAE
The UAE have carried out a strike against Iran for the first time, according to the Israeli portal Ynet.
Ynet - The UAE struck an Iranian desalination complex:
The United Arab Emirates have for the first time launched a strike against Iran.
The strike was carried out against an Iranian desalination complex, and, according to Israeli assessments, at the moment this is just a signal to the regime, and if Iranian attacks intensify, there is a real possibility that the UAE will join the campaign, even on a limited scale.
UAE joins strikes on Iran & hits desalination facility — report
The United Arab Emirates has reportedly struck an Iranian desalination facility, marking its first direct contribution to the US-Israeli war on Iran, Israeli media report.
The UAE Defense Ministry also said the death toll from Iranian strikes on the country has risen to four as the conflict spreads across the Gulf.
👉UPDATE:
🌏A senior UAE official denied Israeli media reports that the country was involved in a strike on Iran.
🌏The Arab League secretary-general said Arab countries are not parties to the conflict with Iran.
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By the way - When you commit some act and then try to blame it on somebody else that is:
A) Bearing False Witness, and
B) A False Flag
🇮🇷🚨IRGC targets US forces at Bahrain's Juffair base in retaliation for US strike on Qeshm Island desalination plant
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Iran under black rain after US-Israeli strikes on oil facilities
👉 Hours before rainfall was forecast, American strikes hit Tehran's oil infrastructure — creating toxic, oil-contaminated rain that now falls over the capital.
The black rain threatens the city's water supply, with dams and drinking water at risk of contamination. Residents now face not only bombs but a growing environmental and health crisis.
From the Iranian Spokesman:
From data centers in the Gulf area to water desalination plants, the worst-case scenario is now unfolding in the Middle East conflict, with no boundaries regarding civilian infrastructure.
We warned earlier last week, after correctly predicting that data centers would be targeted, that water desalination plants would be next (see the previous update).
Al Jazeera reports that after Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi claimed the US targeted a water desalination plant in Iran, an IRGC kamikaze drone then targeted a desalination plant in Bahrain.
Strategic Analysis from Turkey
Along the Gulf coast, desalination plants mark a critical but rarely discussed strategic vulnerability.
Operation Epic Fury is my third Gulf War, so let me assure those of you who are new to the territory that night falls fast on the Persian Gulf, regardless of what American and Israeli politicians say on television.
The West, for decades, has guaranteed that the lights along the petroleum-rich shorelines of Dubai, Doha, and Kuwait City glitter like an Atlantic City casino owner’s smile—bright, confident, always masking the odds.
But the real revenue of those regions is not cultivated in the Saudi oil port in Ras Tanura, or the Burj Al Arab hotel in Dubai, or the I.M. Pei-designed Museum of Islamic Art in Doha. Their income sits low against the waterline in miles of pipes, turbines, and humming steel: desalination plants, the machines that turn seawater into life.
In the Gulf, freshwater is manufactured.
Oil burns. Water disappears.
In military briefings, analysts talk about missiles, drones, and naval fleets. But there’s another chart in the room. U.S. and Israeli officials have never been fond of reporters who ask about the map dotted with desalination plants along the Gulf coast.
Every one of them is a target.
Across the states of the Gulf Cooperation Council—Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, and Oman—more than 400 desalination plants operate, forming the largest concentration of desalination infrastructure on Earth. These installations collectively produce roughly 15.9 million cubic meters of freshwater every day, a volume that translates to about 5.8 billion cubic meters a year—more than enough to fill millions of Olympic pools and supply tens of millions of people who live in some of the driest terrain on the planet.
For many of these countries, the numbers are existential. About 90% of Kuwait’s drinking water, 86% of Oman’s, 70% of Saudi Arabia’s, and roughly 42% of the United Arab Emirates’ water comes from desalination plants that draw life from the Gulf and the Red Sea.
Oil kingdom with a thirsty reality Oil runs their economies. But water runs their lives. And that makes the desalination plants the most vulnerable strategic targets in the Middle East.
Military planners have long understood that the Gulf’s water infrastructure is its Achilles’ heel. During the 1991 Gulf War, a senior Arab diplomat described the vulnerability in stark terms: destroy the desalination plants, and the cities “become unlivable within days.”
Even the prospect of contamination of the Gulf’s waters has alarmed officials. Qatar’s prime minister, Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, warned that regional conflict affecting the Gulf’s waters could leave the region with “no water, no fish, nothing… no life.”
It’s a chilling phrase because the geography makes the threat plausible. Most of the desalination plants sit right on the coastline, clustered along narrow stretches of the Gulf. The intake pipes that pull seawater into their membranes are easy to map and easier still to sabotage.
If Iran truly intends to apply pressure on the Gulf states, it doesn’t need to strike oil terminals and luxury hotels. Hit the desalination plants. The math is lethal. The destruction is more than an inconvenience. It would trigger a cascading crisis.
Within days, municipal water systems collapse. Hospitals would ration water for surgery and sterilization. Power plants—many of which depend on desalinated water for cooling—shut down.
Food imports pile up in ports because distribution networks depend on electricity and water. Sanitation systems fail. Cities like Dubai or Doha—global hubs built in deserts—could not sustain their populations without desalinated water. Tens of millions of residents are now dependent on emergency shipments of bottled water or water tankers.
The Gulf would face a modern form of siege warfare.
When water means power And unlike oil fields, desalination plants cannot easily be replaced or repaired overnight. They are billion-dollar complexes with specialized membranes, turbines, and pipelines. Even temporary shutdowns can cripple supply chains.
In strategic terms, these plants are the infrastructure equivalent of aircraft carriers—expensive, irreplaceable, and highly visible.
This is no Chicken Little scenario. There is precedent for targeting water infrastructure in the Gulf. I was there to see it happen.
During the 1991 Gulf War, Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein ordered the destruction of key infrastructure in Kuwait as his forces retreated, sabotaging oil wells and damaging water facilities, including desalination plants. The aim was simple: leave a wasteland behind and make recovery slow and costly.
Kuwait’s experience illustrated a brutal truth. Oil fires blackened the sky, but it was the damage to water infrastructure that threatened an immediate humanitarian crisis. The country had to scramble to repair plants and import water while engineers restored production.
Three decades later, the stakes are far higher. Gulf populations have multiplied, cities have exploded outward, and dependence on desalination has only deepened.
Politicians are fond of saying that oil defines the geopolitics of the Persian Gulf. Tankers, pipelines, embargoes, the chess pieces of power. Sure, oil is wealth. Water is existence and, ultimately, the only resource that determines survival.
The irony is that oil made desalination possible in the first place. Cheap energy powered the massive thermal plants that boiled seawater into a fresh supply. In Saudi Arabia alone, hundreds of thousands of barrels of oil per day have historically been used to fuel desalination operations.
Oil created the modern Gulf states. Water keeps them alive. The mullahs of Iran know this.
Israel is trying to provoke a war between the Gulf States and Iran. Is it working?
🇸🇦🇮🇷The Saudi Defense Minister:
We hope that the Iranian side will prevail with wisdom and refrain from making wrong calculations.
Iranian attacks do not serve the interests of regional security and stability.
We have expressed our hope that the Iranian side will prevail with wisdom and common sense, and refrain from making wrong calculations.
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This is not our war: why Saudi Arabia is pushing back against pressure to join a conflict with Iran
Saudi state media are pushing back against what they describe as misleading media campaigns designed to stoke panic and drag Gulf states into a war that is not theirs.
While the US and Israel stand to benefit from escalating chaos in the Gulf, Riyadh is making it clear it wants no part of it.
Here’s why:
🌏 Despite claims of aggression, Iranian strikes on US facilities at King Fahd and Prince Sultan air bases (Feb 28–March 2) caused zero damage to Saudi national infrastructure
🌏 On March 2, Saudi official publicly criticized the US for prioritizing air defense for Israel over protecting Gulf skies
🌏 On March 3, Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar revealed Islamabad lobbied Tehran to avoid striking Saudi Arabia—citing a bilateral defense pact—and Iran agreed
🌏 The next day, drones struck Saudi Aramco facilities in Ras Tanura. Western media quickly blamed Iran, but Tehran dismissed the claim as an Israeli false-flag provocation. Saudi Arabia has not accused Iran
Pakistan quietly played its role as a security guarantor, neutralizing a potential escalation through diplomacy. The kingdom wisely avoided being drawn into a conflict that could have ignited a major oil crisis.
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Azerbaijan
🇮🇷❌🇦🇿The Iranian military denies launching drones towards Azerbaijan, the General Staff of the Islamic Republic reported.
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Iranian drones in Azerbaijan: false flag provocation?
🇮🇱🇦🇿 We all know Azerbaijan's Aliyev one of Netanyahu’s closest allies (or more like his puppet). But for Israel, Azerbaijanis look like just the next batch of cannon fodder.
During the 12-day war in June, Tehran raised serious concerns that Israel was using Azerbaijani airspace to launch and coordinate attacks. Media reports speculated that Israeli jets and drones entered Iran via the Caspian Sea, relying on Azerbaijani territory for maneuvers and mid-air refueling.
📍Why the Caspian route makes sense:
🌏 The distance from Azerbaijan’s Caspian coast to central Tehran is only ~100 km
🌏 Israeli aircraft could launch standoff missiles over the sea without crossing Iran’s heavily defended western border
🌏 This explains some of the deeper strikes, like the one that hit the IRIB state broadcaster building in Tehran
This goes deeper: media reports say Mossad set up a base in Azerbaijan to monitor Iran and even prepare for strikes on nuclear facilities.
In exchange, Baku received billions in Israeli weapons.
In late January, Israel's Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar visited Baku for high-level talks, and in February 2026, Israel and Azerbaijan signed a new memorandum on AI cooperation — another layer in their deepening military-technological alliance.
If Aliyev jumps into this war, the price to pay will be unbearable: Iran would simply wipe out every single Azerbaijani asset in the Caspian Sea.
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Arrests in Iraq
🇮🇶🇵🇱 BREAKING! Iraq’s National Security Service has arrested a five-member Zionist espionage cell carrying Polish passports.
🇮🇷🇮🇱 Iran exposes Israel’s false flag campaign
💬 “The Zionist regime will undoubtedly seek to exploit the situation, expand the scope of fire, and carry out acts of sabotage in regional countries to transform the war…into a widespread regional conflict,” Iranian Foreign Ministry spox Esmail Baghaei told journalists Tuesday.
His comments were echoed by the Iranian General Staff’s Communication Center, which denied Iranian involvement in strikes on the territory or ports of its “friend and neighbor” Oman, which faced a wave of mystery drone attacks Tuesday.
💬 “The aggressor Zionists and Americans…are seeking to attack diplomatic centers and the interests of Muslim countries in the region with the aim of blaming the Islamic Republic,” the military said, characterizing such attacks as “desperate acts” by the aggressors.
Iran’s foreign Ministry remarked separately that Iran did not target Saudi Aramco’s massive Ras Tanura refinery, which caught fire Monday after a drone attack.
Iran’s comments come on the heels of Tucker Carlson’s bombshell reporting Monday that authorities in Qatar and Saudi Arabia had arrested “Mossad agents planning on committing bombings in those countries.”
✍️ “Why would the Israelis be committing bombings in two Gulf countries which are also being attacked by Iran? Aren’t they on the same side? No! Israel wants to hurt Iran and Qatar, and UAE, and Saudi, and Bahrain, and Oman, and Kuwait. And they’ve succeeded!” Carlson said.
The perfect crime
False flags in Gulf nations:
👉 could draw them directly into war against Iran (Israel and the US’s dream)
👉 disrupt diplomacy (Oman has played a vital role not only in Iran-US talks, but the historic 2023 Iran-Saudi normalization pact)
👉 divert international attention from the barbarity of US-Israeli attacks on civilian infrastructure in Iran
👉 trigger global condemnation over “Iran’s” attacks on vital energy infrastructure
👉 push the Gulf to align even closer to the US and Israel, and ramp up US arms purchases
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In this video Tucker Carlson says Mossad saboteur agents were arrested in a Gulf State (Qatar?)
🚨 Israel's hidden objective is to destroy the Gulf states — Tucker Carlson
"Israel wants to hurt Iran and Qatar and UAE and Saudi and Bahrain and Oman and Kuwait. And they've succeeded," says Tucker Carlson.
He says that their final step before controlling the entire region will be to remove US troops.
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🤔 Iran war: A Rothschild plot?
Iran’s real ‘sin’ isn’t its nuclear program — it was rejecting the globalist digital money model, US investment banker Catherine Fitts argues.
When US Army General Wesley Clark was told in 2001 that the US was “going to invade seven countries in five years,” it meant nations whose central banks “were not on board with programmable money,” Fitts told Tucker Carlson.
She said the aim was to assert control over the central banks of Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Iran — and place them under a globalist Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) framework.
💬 "I'll call it the Rockefeller-Rothschild model," Fitts says.
A centrally controlled CBDC system with globally interoperable digital IDs cannot tolerate ‘leakage’ — meaning independent sovereign monetary systems.
💬 "I think one of the reasons we're seeing so much tension around Iran is because Iran right now is the big leakage in the system," Fitts stresses.
💬 "Iran's central bank counts. One of the reasons it counts is because their oil and energy is very important."
The pursuit of independent payment systems by Iran and BRICS makes them a sticking point for globalists, Fitts says.
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Consequences for blowing up the person you are negotiating with:
Just like in Ukraine, those in a position to negotiate peace were blown up by Ukraine - in an apparent attemto to scuttle negotiations. Rumor has it that the elder Ayatollah Khamenei was lured into the open out of a bunker in false belief that he had safe passage by Trump for the negotiation.
1 March
🇺🇸🇮🇷Trump announced that Iran had offered to resume negotiations and he agreed to engage in contact.
He stated this in a comment to The Atlantic magazine.
"They want to talk, and I agreed to talk, so I will talk to them. They should have done this earlier. They should have given what was very practical and easy to implement earlier. They waited too long," said the head of the White House.
2 March
❌🇺🇸 Ex-Obama advisor: Trump won negotiations with Iran, but 'chose to declare war'
Trita Parsi, who advised the Obama administration on the 2015 nuclear deal, reveals what was actually on the table before the strikes.
"This deal is much, much stronger than what Obama got. Under Obama, Iran could keep 300 kilos. Under this deal—zero stockpile. No stockpile, no bomb."
Parsi concludes by saying:
"Trump had a massive win. He could have declared victory. Instead, he chose war."
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🚨 A building affiliated with Iran's Assembly of Experts, the body responsible for selecting Khamenei's successor, has been targeted in an Israeli attack in Qom
88 members of the council were reportedly holding ballots at the time to choose the next Iranian Supreme Leader.
Mojtaba Khamenei was injured in the attack but survived and was later elected when the Assembly of Experts held a vote in a safer location.
🇮🇷 "If the father dies, the father's gun still remains."
Mojtaba Khamenei.
Netanyahu vows to intensify Tehran strikes
The Israeli Prime Minister spoke from a rooftop in Tel Aviv, claiming responsibility for the assassination of Iran's Supreme Leader and promising further strikes.
Iran will not conduct any negotiations with the US - Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council Larijani
"Tehran is ready to continue the war with the US and Israel for as long as necessary," the advisor stated.
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Credit where due: I told you who it would be a week ago.
Iran names Khamenei’s son Mojtaba as new supreme leader after father’s killing
How will this affect the negotiations with other countries in progress?:
Putin officially congratulated the new Supreme Leader of Iran on assuming his position.
The new Supreme Leader has been selected. Insulting the head of another country's manhood is not usually a good negotiating tactic. It more resembles what happens in those fake wrestling things on TV:
Sound like objective reporting? Propaganda?
Iran Announces It Has Chosen a New Supreme Leader as Embarrassing Information Emerges Regarding the Presumed Choice
He is reportedly even more extreme and violent than his wicked father, which would be awful news for the people of Iran.
One could argue that a possible reason for Mojtaba Khamenei’s vile views and actions is that he’s attempting to compensate for his own “inadequacies.”
As The New York Post notes, Mojtaba Khamenei was treated for impotency so severe that he had to be hospitalized on several occasions. This came after trying to have sex with his wife for months.
The President of Iran is alive and communicating:
Putin spoke with the President of Iran
▪️The President of Russia expressed his condolences in connection with the death of the Supreme Leader of Iran, Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei, members of his family, representatives of the military-political leadership, and civilians.
▪️Moscow declares the need for an immediate cessation of hostilities and the rejection of forceful methods of resolving the crisis around Iran.
▪️V. Putin emphasized that he maintains constant contacts with the leaders of the countries of the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Persian Gulf.
▪️The President of Iran, Masoud Pezeshkian, thanked Russia for the solidarity shown and reported on the development of the situation during the current phase of the conflict.
▪️The parties agreed to continue contacts through various channels.
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🇮🇷💬The temporary governing council of Iran has decided not to launch any more strikes on countries in the region, unless there are attacks from their territories. This was announced by the country's President Masoud Pezeshkian.
Insurgency Reality
❌Bunkers don’t hold, sirens don’t work — Indian journalist shares truth on Israel’s civil defense
"And these were just things people say, that bunkers [in Israel] are very good. We saw that people died in 100-foot deep bunkers there, and you are not being told the reality of what’s happening… And when an incident happens, we don’t even know what the location is," an Indian journalist who visited Israel during the ongoing war says.
Israeli safety tech is also not as good as it’s claimed to be, he notes — in several cases an attack occurred with no alarm sounding in advance.
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https://t.me/geopolitics_prime/66255. 1:22 minutes
🇺🇸After Iraq and Afghanistan, US still doesn’t get it: it can't sustain a long war with Iran
The US doesn't have an industrial base to wage a protracted war, former CIA analyst Larry Johnson warns in an interview with retired Judge Andrew Napolitano.
"Over the last six days, Iran has destroyed 40% of the total number of THAADs, our defense systems, in the US inventory," Johnson says. "We don't have that many."
What’s the US production pace of these? "Maybe one or two a year," the CIA veteran notes.
And what about America’s most sophisticated radars in the region? Five of them have been knocked out by Iranian strikes, according to Johnson.
"We've been through this so many times, and it's like nobody learns a thing!"
US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth boasts that the US “controls the skies” over Iran — but that control hadn’t spared the US military from embarrassing setbacks before, the former CIA analyst says.
"You know what? Israel controls the skies over Gaza. Two and a half years they have failed to defeat Hamas. We controlled the skies over Iraq – but insurgency went on, we couldn't do a thing about it. We controlled the skies over Afghanistan – for 20 years and billions of dollars – and we had to fly out."
🇷🇺🇮🇷🇺🇲🇮🇱A report from The Washington Post published on March 6, 2026, states that Russia is providing Iran with targeting intelligence to strike American forces in the Middle East.
This marks the first significant indication of another major world power becoming indirectly involved in the current conflict between the U.S., Israel, and Iran.
➡️ Russia has reportedly shared the locations and movements of U.S. warships, aircraft, and radar systems since the conflict escalated on February 28, 2026.
➡️Satellite Imagery: The assistance includes satellite data that helps Iran identify specific bases, military personnel locations, and logistics flows.
➡️Analysts suggest this intelligence sharing fills a critical gap for Iran, which lacks a sophisticated satellite constellation of its own to track mobile U.S. assets.
➡️ One official cited in the report described Russia's support as a "pretty comprehensive effort" to assist Iranian retaliatory strikes.
➡️ Spokesperson Anna Kelly downplayed the impact of the intelligence, stating that the Iranian regime is being "absolutely crushed" and its military capabilities are being decimated despite the aid.
➡️When questioned about the report, President Trump dismissed the inquiry as "stupid," comparing it to more pressing issues the administration is addressing.
ℹ️ Formally Iran and Russia have signed a comprehensive strategic Partnership agreement but not a military alliance. So support like this is likely possible as we witnessed in the sharing of the Shahed drone technologies.
From Putin's Envoy to the US:
Exactly who voted for this guy?
Exiled Iranian Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi has "accepted" the responsibility of serving as Iran's transitional LEADER as the Islamic regime is ousted - "The Iranian people have called on me to lead the transition after the regime is gone. I have accepted that responsibility."
🇺🇸🇨🇳🇮🇷The US has intelligence data indicating that China may provide Iran with financial assistance, spare parts, and components for missiles, - CNN
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What information is being fed to Trump and by Who
Regarding his being targeted by Iranian assassins. (See above).
Trump accepted the intelligence from the CIA/Mossad about this. Aren't they the same Deep State people and the ones who tried to get him locked up, stole the election, J6 etc?
Polls in Iran and how they were run.
Meanwhile polls in America: AI Summary
Public opinion on U.S. military action in Iran is largely negative, with multiple polls conducted in early March 2026 showing that a majority of Americans disapprove of President Donald Trump’s decision to launch strikes.
Reuters/Ipsos poll found that only 27% of Americans approved of the U.S. strikes, while 43% disapproved and 29% were unsure. The strikes, conducted jointly with Israel and dubbed “Operation Epic Fury,” resulted in the death of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and sparked widespread concern about escalation.
CNN’s poll reported even stronger disapproval, with 59% of Americans disapproving of the military action and only 41% approving. Similarly, The Washington Post’s flash poll showed Americans opposed the airstrikes by 52% to 39%, with strong opposition among Democrats and independents.
Partisan divides are stark:
Republicans generally support the strikes, with approval ranging from 55% to 77% depending on the poll.
Democrats overwhelmingly oppose them, with disapproval exceeding 74%.
Independents are mostly opposed or uncertain, with around 60% either opposing or unsure.
There is also broad skepticism about Trump’s strategy:
60% in the CNN poll said they don’t trust Trump to make the right decisions on the use of force.
62% believe he lacks a clear plan.
56% think long-term conflict with Iran is likely.
Despite some support for regime change, only 12% favor sending U.S. ground troops, and 54% believe Iran will become more threatening as a result of the strikes.
A Trafalgar Group poll, which tends to lean conservative, showed higher approval at 53.9%, indicating divergence in polling methodology and audience. However, most national surveys suggest the U.S. public is wary of military escalation and doubts the long-term effectiveness of the operation. "
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