Nearly Half of Adults Think U.S. Efforts to Prevent Iran From Building Nuclear

Weapons Should Happen With U.N. Support, According to Harris Poll

ROCHESTER, N.Y., March 23 /PRNewswire/ -- While almost everyone is
concerned about Iran's nuclear program, almost half (47%) of all U.S.
adults think that the United States should only act with support from
the United Nations to prevent Iran from building nuclear weapons. Only
a few adults (8%) think that the United States would be "perfectly
justified to act alone," while more than a third (38%) think that the
United States could act alone, "but it would be better to have support
from the United Nations."

These are the results of a nationwide Harris Poll of 2,435 U.S. adults
surveyed online by Harris Interactive(R) between March 8 and 14, 2006.

The Harris Poll(R) also found that opinions on how the United States
should react to the threat of Iran building nuclear weapons vary
greatly by party. Fully 63 percent of Democrats and 50 percent of
Independents think that the United States should only act with the
support of the United Nations, while only 25 percent of Republicans
feel this way. A majority of Republicans think that the United States
would be "perfectly justified to act alone" (17%) or that the United
States could act alone, "but that it would be better to have the
support of the United Nations" (53%).

Other findings in The Harris Poll include:

* Only a very small minority (6%) of adults think that Iranian nuclear

research is "not anything for the United States to worry about." An

overwhelming majority (85%) says that this is cause for concern.

* Fully 70 percent of adults think that Iran is using their nuclear

research to try to build a nuclear weapon. One-quarter (25%) of adults

are not sure.

TABLE 1

CONCERN ABOUT IRAN'S NUCLEAR RESEARCH

"Recently Iran said it was going to restart its nuclear technology research.

Do you think this should be a concern for the U.S. or not?"

Base: All adults

Total

%

Should be a concern 85

Should not be anything for the U.S. to worry about 6

Not sure 9

TABLE 2

IS IRAN TRYING TO BUILD A NUCLEAR WEAPON?

"Do you believe that Iran is using this research to try and build a nuclear

weapon?"

Base: All adults

Total

%

Yes, Iran is using this research to try and build a

nuclear weapon 70

No, Iran is not using this research to try and build a

nuclear weapon 5

Not sure 25

TABLE 3

SHOULD UNITED STATES ACT ALONE OR WORK WITH THE UNITED NATIONS?

"In working to prevent Iran from building nuclear weapons, to what
extent should the United States act alone, without support from the
United Nations?"

Base: All adults

Total Party ID

Republican Democrat Independent

% % % %

The United States

should only act with

support from the

United Nations 47 25 63 50

The United States can

act alone, but it

would be better to

have support from the

United Nations 38 53 29 38

The United States is

perfectly justified

to act alone 8 17 2 7

Not sure 7 5 6 5

Methodology

The Harris Poll(R) was conducted online within the United States
between March 8 and 14, 2006 among 2,435 adults (aged 18 and over).
Figures for age, sex, race, education, region and household income
were weighted where necessary to bring them into line with their
actual proportions in the population. Propensity score weighting was
also used to adjust for respondents' propensity to be online.

In theory, with probability samples of this size, one could say with
95 percent certainty that the overall results have a sampling error of
plus or minus 2 percentage points of what they would be if the entire
U.S. adult population had been polled with complete accuracy. Sampling
error for sub- samples of Republicans (774), Democrats (814) and
Independents (642) is higher and varies. Unfortunately, there are
several other possible sources of error in all polls or surveys that
are probably more serious than theoretical calculations of sampling
error. They include refusals to be interviewed (nonresponse), question
wording and question order, and weighting. It is impossible to
quantify the errors that may result from these factors. This online
sample was not a probability sample.

These statements conform to the principles of disclosure of the
National Council on Public Polls.

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The Harris Poll(R) #27, March 23, 2006

By Humphrey Taylor, chairman, The Harris Poll(R), Harris Interactive(R)

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