(Angus Reid Global Monitor) - Many Israelis would support American military action against Iran, according to a poll by Maagar Mochot, the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies and the Anti-Defamation League. 71 per cent of respondents think that if international diplomatic efforts fail to stop Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, the U.S. should use force to destroy its nuclear facilities.

After being branded as part of an "axis of evil" by U.S. president George W. Bush in January 2002, Iran has contended that its nuclear program aims to produce energy, not weapons. In June 2005, former Tehran mayor Mahmoud Ahmadinejad won Iran's presidential election in a run-off over Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani with 61.6 per cent of all cast ballots.

In December 2006, the United Nations (UN) Security Council unanimously voted to impose sanctions against Iran after it failed to stop uranium enrichment. Ahmadinejad claimed the sanctions were illegitimate, and has recently announced his country is successfully enriching uranium—a process needed both to make nuclear weapons and produce electricity—in an "industrial scale."

In late April, Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert questioned the alleged advances of Iran's nuclear program, saying, "I don't think that Iran is about to cross the nuclear technology threshold as its leaders claim. (...) We still have time to stop them."

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Do you believe that, if the international diplomatic effort and economic sanctions fail to stop Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, the U.S. should use force to destroy the Iranian nuclear facilities?

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