WASHINGTON, March 30 (UPI) -- Israel would be the most threatened by a nuclear-armed Iran, participants in a UPI-Zogby International poll said.
Some 78.9 percent of the interactive poll respondents said Israel was the country that would be the most threatened should Iran achieve nuclear-weapons status. The United States was the next highest country on the respondents' list at 5.5 percent and Saudi Arabia -- at 1.9 percent -- was the only other nation selected by more than 1 percent of those asked.
In addition, a total of 62.7 percent of the 4,824 U.S. residents asked said they believed Iran would "try to attack Israel if it acquired nuclear weapons." Only 17.2 percent said they believed Iranian officials would not attack in this instance.
Along that line, the poll asked if the United States should retaliate if Iran attacked a U.S. ally in the Middle East and a slim majority -- 50.3 percent -- agreed, 23.7 percent disagreed and 26 percent said they were unsure.
The Zogby interactive poll was done March 14-16 and has a margin of error of 1.4 percentage points.
