TEHRAN - While a great majority of Americans disapprove of the U.S. war against Iran, President Donald Trump and most Republicans in the House and Senate do not heed it.

It is not just Americans who overwhelmingly oppose the war but world leaders, including American allies, call the Israeli-U.S. aggression against Iran illegal.

For a country like the United States which claims it is the leader of the free world, lectures other countries about democracy and freedom of speech and opinion, its shows no regard for the public opposition to the war.  Ignoring the public opinion clearly shows that all these slogans chanted by the U.S. are empty and deceitful.

Since the start of the U.S.-Israel bombing campaign against Iran, which has entered its fifth week, most polls find that the U.S. involvement is unpopular. The percentage of people who are opposing the war are constantly increasing.

Trump’s approval rating has fallen in recent days to its lowest point since he returned to the White House. It is because of a surge in fuel prices and widespread disapproval of the war he launched on Iran. The  Reuters/Ipsos poll found on March 24  that just 36% of Americans approve of his ‌job performance, down from 40% in a Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted last week.

The Americans are still suffering the hysteria of the United States’ wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. However, Trump, who vociferously claimed that his administration wants to put an end to “endless wars” in West Asia started an illegal, unjustified and unprovoked war against Iran in coordination with Israel on Feb. 28. 

The Americans are simply noticing that Trump is speedily pushing their country toward another quagmire in West Asia. They are aware that the war against Iran is much more costly and far more dangerous. Trump and his inner circles who imagined that they will force Iran into submission in a matter of days proves the gravity of the situation and this has led to chaotic decisions in the White House. 

According to the latest Yahoo/YouGov poll, one of the most unifying aspects of the ongoing war in Iran is the degree to which Americans across the political spectrum are concerned that the U.S. is getting too involved in the conflict.

The survey, conducted from March 12 to 16, found that three out of four U.S. adults (75%) are somewhat or very concerned about "the U.S. getting too involved in Iran".

At least 80% see the war as somewhat or very likely that "more U.S. troops in the Middle East will be killed or injured" (82%) or that "U.S. gas prices will continue to increase because of the conflict" (80%).

About one month into the war, recent polls suggest that disapproval has sustained. A Pew Research Center survey released on March 25 showed that 61% of Americans disapprove of Trump’s handling of the conflict, and a poll from the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research found six in 10 American adults say that the U.S. military action on Iran has “gone too far.”

A Quinnipiac University poll released March 25 also found that 42% of registered U.S. voters believe the war makes the world less safe. Even a survey by Fox News found 58% of American voters oppose the war.

A handful of key GOP lawmakers have also grown increasingly uneasy about the administration’s apparent lack of transparency about how the war is being handled or funded.

A considerable number of those who voted for Trump have also lost confidence in him. For example, Roberta Wolfe, a nurse from nearby Florence, Ky., cast her ballot for Trump in 2024 because she saw him as more focused on the economy and “draining the swamp” in the federal government. But, the Wall Street Journal reported, now she sees the U.S. involved in another Middle Eastern conflict, and it “scares the hell out of me.”

“We’ve got our own problems and it’s so far away,” Wolfe said over lunch recently at the Hive, a restaurant and coffeehouse owned by the mayor of this suburb near Cincinnati, pointing to rising gasoline prices and tepid job growth. “We can’t be completely isolationist but sometimes you have to stay within your own home.”

Now, most Americans feel they have been cheated by Trump, and Trump cheated by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Trump, who campaigned on a platform to end "forever wars," also promoted the slogan "Make America Great Again" (MAGA), which is emblazoned on his hat. 

Although many former and current officials in the U.S. and outside are convinced that Trump was deceived into aggression against Iran by Netanyahu, a few have expressed it openly.
Joe Kent, Trump’s director of the National Counterterrorism Center, resigned on March 18 in protest to the aggression on Iran and urged Trump to "reverse course".

In a letter posted on X, Kent said that Iran posed "no imminent threat" to the U.S. and said the Trump administration "started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby". 

In the letter addressed to Trump, Kent said that "high-ranking Israeli officials" and influential U.S. journalists had sown "misinformation" that led the president to undermine his "America First" platform.

"This echo chamber was used to deceive you into believing that Iran posed an imminent threat to the United States," the letter continued. "This was a lie."

To cast more lights on Netanyahu’s influence on Trump’s decisions, Kent also said on March 23 that Israel undermined the U.S. president’s attempts to de-escalate conflict with Iran. 

“Step 1 in deescalation must be restraining the Israelis, otherwise all efforts to negotiate will follow this pattern: POTUS publicly announces deescalation. Israel takes major strikes to destroy the negotiations & in turn weaken our ability to negotiate,” Kent wrote on X, The Hill reported.

In this unjustified war, American soldiers are being killed for Israel and the costs of the war is being paid by American taxpayers. The WSJ reported on March 26 that radar systems and aircraft worth billions of dollars have been damaged and destroyed by Iranian attacks, friendly-fire incidents or accidents. 

As an example, an Iranian missile strike on the ground at Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia on March 16 damaged five U.S. Air Force KC-135 Stratotanker refueling aircraft.

The Washington Post reported on March 27 that more than 850 Tomahawks have been fired in just four weeks, citing people familiar with the matter.

What is certain is that Trump neither cares about the concerns of American people, nor democracy and human rights. He is also famous for flattering dictators in the world.    

Trump is not only oblivious of his promises to his voters but also ignorant of what the world thinks of his aggression on Iran. 

Feeling isolated and being pushed into a quagmire of the Iran war, he is criticizing Washington’s allies, including Britain, who are refusing to join his illegal aggression against Iran. He has accused the leaders of these countries of being coward not to help him to open the strategic Strait of Hormuz which is being shut by Iran to U.S. commercial tankers and those of countries backing his war on Iran.

In an exclusive interview from Helsinki on March 27, British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer said he "won't buckle" on his stance on the war on Iran whatever the pressure from Trump. A few days earlier, Starmer  told Trump he won’t be “pressured” into changing his position on the war.

The prime minister said he “will not be wavering” in his belief that America and Israel’s attacks were illegal and that the president has no plan for what comes next.

Like some other European officials, he said, “This is not our war, and we are not getting dragged into this war.”

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, whose country is an important ally of the U.S., has also censured Trump’s war in Iran. In an event on March 24, Steinmeier said, “This war violates international law.”

The main point is that Trump shows little concern for the worries of the American people or the warnings from American allies. He has prioritized Israel's aggressive objectives over the well-being and lives of Americans and the interests of Washington. In essence, he has shifted from an "America First" approach to an "Israel First" agenda.