WASHINGTON – A new poll shows European countries strongly supportive of international intervention to stop a nuclear-armed Iran, including further sanctions.
By overwhelming numbers, citizens of Germany, France and Sweden said that they wanted the international community to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons – by 80 percent, 83% and 90% respectively – rather than agreeing that Iran has the right to develop nuclear weapons.
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Those surveyed in the three countries also said they want to see the EU
impose further sanctions. Germans answered that they wanted additional
sanctions by a 70-22 margin, French by a 66-27 margin and Swedes by a
78-15 margin.
In addition, significant majorities of all three groups had cool rather
than warm feelings towards Iran.
The poll was conducted by Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research from The
Israel Project over the second and third week of July. It was conducted
of just over 1,000 people in Germany and France, and 500 in Sweden. The
margin of error was +/- 3.1 percent in France and Germany and 4.5 +/-
percent in Sweden.
The Israel Project declined to comment on whether a possible military
strike had been another possible type of international intervention
posed to those surveyed.