CNN Poll: Two thirds of Americans Favor Keeping Iran Nuclear Deal

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A large majority of Americans do not believe the United States should pull out of the 2015 nuclear deal meant to limit Iran's nuclear program, according to a CNN poll published Friday.

The survey - whose publication comes after US President Donald Trump announced earlier this month he would not recertify the nuclear accord and would be open to scrapping it if Congress does not sufficiently address the Islamic Republic's ballistic missile activity and support for subversive actors in the region - revealed major partisan disagreement on whether the US should remain committed to the agreement.

While 67 percent of Americans overall said the US should not withdraw from the nuclear deal, with 27% in favor of leaving the accord, 80% percent of Democrats said the US should remain in the agreement, with only 13% supporting abandoning the deal.

Among Republicans, meanwhile, opinion was evenly split on whether the US should stay in the nuclear pact, with 48% of Republicans saying the US should remain in the agreement and 47% saying the US should leave.

"As you may know, the United States and five other countries entered an agreement with Iran aimed at preventing Iran from developing nuclear weapons," said the question posed to 1,010 respondents by SSRS, a research company. "Do you think the US should or should not withdraw from that agreement?" The margin of error was 3.5 percentage points.

The feelings of Independents on whether the US should stay in the deal mirrored that of the general population, with 67% saying the US should remain in the agreement and 27% saying it should leave.

Republicans and Democrats were also split on their feelings toward the threat level Iran constitutes towards the US, with 45% of Republicans saying Iran is a very serious threat, as opposed to only 26% of Democrats.

The most serious threat perceived in the current poll is North Korea, which 62 percent of respondents rated a "very serious" threat. The Trump administration and the North Korean government have exchanged threats of a nuclear attack in recent months.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team