Survey: 73% of Americans consider Iran as a threat of security in the midst of nuclear concerns

In the middle of a week of daily attacks between the behemoths of the Middle East Israel and Iran, President Donald Trump has repeatedly pierced a key point.

“Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon,” wrote the president on social networks.

And speaking with journalists from the White House Oval Office, Trump stressed: “I have said for 20 years, perhaps longer, that Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon.”

This is a position that the American presidents have taken for a few decades. And it seems that most Americans agree with Trump and his presidential predecessors with regard to the possibility that Iran acquires nuclear weapons.

Fox News survey: Voters think that Iran is a real threat to American security

President Donald Trump, in the White House oval office in Washington, DC, on June 18, 2025, answers questions from journalists concerning the possibility of launching a military strike on Iran. (AP photo / Alex Brandon) (AP photo / Alex Brandon)

Almost three-quarters (73%) of the voters registered in a new national Fox News survey said that they thought Iran was a real security threat to the United States, which has been a 13-point boost since Fox News asked the question six years ago.

And the survey, carried out from June 13 to 16, indicates wide support through the partisan spectrum. The majorities of Republicans (82%), Democrats (69%) and self -employed (62%) agreed that Iran was a threat.

The survey also showed that 78% of those questioned said that they were very or extremely concerned about obtaining a nuclear bomb. And eight out of 10 said what was going on in the Middle East is important in the United States

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Daron Shaw, a veteran of the goping sounder and republican partner of the Fox News survey, said that “the increased feeling that Iran is a threat is real, but it also reflects the moment and the unique circumstances surrounding this survey”.

“The survey was in the field while images of Iranian missiles falling on television dominated by Tel Aviv and Internet – the immediacy and clarity of the conflict undoubtedly contributes to the way in which voters evaluate what is in danger,” noted Shaw, who is also a professor of politics and president at the University of Texas.

A massive plume of smoke and shooting rises from an oil refinery in the south of Tehran following a nighttime, an Israeli strike overnight targeted the site on June 15, 2025. (Atta Kenare / AFP)

There was a similar answer concerning the threat of Iran in a national survey of the Ronald Reagan Institute carried out earlier this month, before the initial attack of Israel last week triggered the daily bombings by the two nations.

Eighty-four percent of those interviewed in the survey, which was first divided with Fox News, said that Iran has prevented Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons in the United States security and prosperity.

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Trump weighs if the United States should join Israel in the strike of Iran to paralyze its nuclear program and prevent Tehran from acquiring nuclear weapons.

“President Trump does not often have political softball that has sent his way. His decision to support Israel’s attacks on the Islamic Republic of Iran and the potential decision to wear a limited but decisive blow for Iran’s nuclear ambitions by hitting Ford-Fordow can prove to be a political mana of paradise,” said the political veteran of scientists Wayne Lesperance.

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Lesperance, president of the New England College, noted that “if the president will bring the case clearly and firmly to the American people, the survey data suggest that he would benefit from the support of his own party, democrats and independents. In addition, Trump’s decision and subsequent action would spray problems or coverage such as immigration, the budget, or the prices of the end.

But Lesperance has warned that “all of this assumes that attacks succeed. This also assumes that Americans are tolerant of the reaction of the reaction on the threat of an Iran with nuclear arms”.

Dana Blanton and Victoria Balara from Fox News contributed to this report.