Recent findings from a Reuters/Ipsos poll reveal a stark lack of public support for Operation Epic Fury, the U.S. military operation that led to the death of Iran’s supreme leader. Only 27 percent of American adults approve of the strikes, while 43 percent disapprove and 29 percent remain undecided. These numbers indicate a significant divide in public opinion on the issue, highlighting concerns about the use of military force to further U.S. interests. In fact, a resounding 56 percent of those surveyed believe President Trump is too eager to resort to military action.

Partisan perspectives on this matter are sharply divided. The poll shows that a significant 83 percent of Democrats view the president as too quick to employ military force. In contrast, only 23 percent of Republicans share this sentiment, with 60 percent of independents agreeing with the Democrats’ stance. This survey, conducted online among 1,282 adults across the United States, has a margin of error of plus or minus three percentage points, providing a snapshot of the nation’s current views on military intervention.

The strikes have not gone unnoticed by the public, with approximately 90 percent of respondents aware of the events that unfolded early Saturday morning, leading to at least three American casualties. In an interview with the Daily Mail, President Trump estimated that the conflict would last approximately four weeks. While the operation initially received praise from some Republicans on Capitol Hill, the Trump administration is now facing enhanced scrutiny following reports of U.S. troop casualties and injuries, intensifying the debate over the administration’s military strategies.

Longtime Trump supporters are now bashing him for running on a campaign to end military conflicts in the Middle East, while some historically vocal anti-war voices, including Trump’s past self, now cheer the actions on. ‘This was absolutely unnecessary and is unacceptable,’ former US Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, who resigned from her seat last month, said on X. ‘Trump, Vance, Tulsi, and all of us campaigned on no more foreign wars and regime change. Now, America soldiers are dead,’ Greene noted. Representative Thomas Massie, a libertarian Republican who has not been afraid to blast the Trump administration when he disagrees with them and has also been a lead advocate for the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files, wrote, ‘PSA: Bombing a country on the other side of the globe won’t make the Epstein files go away, any more than the Dow going above 50,000 will.’

Tulsi Gabbard, the Director of National Intelligence who ran a presidential campaign on a platform of avoiding an Iranian war, oversaw the operation from the White House Situation Room alongside Vance, Energy Secretary Chris Wright, and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. In 2019 Gabbard released a fundraising video in 2019 titled ‘Trump’s Path To War With Iran,’ in which she urged voters to ‘stop Donald Trump from starting a war with Iran.’ Vance, as recently as October of 2024, was against the US going to war in Iran as well. During an appearance on podcaster Tim Dillon’s show, Vance noted, ‘our interests, I think, very much, are not going to war in Iran.’

Vance also noted at the time that the Israelis, as well as the Gulf Arab States, should ‘police their own regions in the world.’ Numerous statements made by Trump during Barack Obama’s presidency, and even during his campaign against Vice President Kamala Harris, always pinned the possibility of war with Iran on his political opponents. Harris herself rebuked Trump’s attack, noting in a statement that she was ‘opposed to a regime-change war in Iran,’ and ‘that troops are being put in harm’s way for the sake of Trump’s war of choice.’