Press TV- A recently conducted opinion poll shows that 94.5 percent of Iranians do not trust the United States which has held no diplomatic relations with Tehran since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
The Afkar Iranian Center, a public opinion polling institute,conducted the survey from October 7 to 13 among863 adults across Iran's provincial capitals, the Tasnim news agency reported.
According to the findings, 60.6% of Iranians do not trust the US at all, 21.3% have very low trust in the country, and 12.5% ??trust Washington to a certain extent.
The results come less than a year since the inauguration of US President Donald Trump, whoboth on his campaign trail and after stepping into the job, has expressed exceeding animosity towards the Islamic Republic.
The antagonism has seen Trumpattackthe 2015 nuclear deal between Tehran and world countries, which include Washington itself, and impose several rounds of sanctions against the Iranian missile program.
He has also threatened to tear up the international accord. Last month, Trump refusedto certify Tehrans compliance with the accord during a speech in which he called Iran a "terrorist nation" and used "Arabian Gulf" to refer to a body of water historically known as the Persian Gulf.
The insults triggered angry reactions among the Iranians who took to the streets in massive numbers Saturday to mark the anniversary of the 1979 takeover of the US embassy in Tehran.
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Iranians carry placards during a demonstration outside the former US embassy in Tehran on November 4, 2017. (Photo by Tasnim)[/caption]The turnout for the annual Iranian street rallies commemorating the US embassy takeover, a pivotal event of the Islamic Revolution, appeared to be higher than in recent years.
The demonstrations came amid uncertainty about thenuclear deal, officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action.
More than 23 percent of the respondents in the survey said they did not have hope in the agreements future, 27 percent chose the little or very little hope choice, and 29 percent said they were hopeful of the deals outlook to some extent.
Washington has a history of animositywith Tehraneven when the country was a close ally of the United States before the Islamic Revolution. The CIA engineered a coup in 1953 thatbrought down the elected government of Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddeq.
The US also supported the former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein in his eight-year war against Iran in the 1980s, providing him with vital intelligence and weapons. The war also marked direct US attacks on Iran's offshore oil facilities in the Persian Gulf and the downing of an Iranian Airbusin which 290 people were killed.
Last month, Trump unveiled tougher immigration measures against Iranians along with the citizens of 10 other countries. Those measures were purportedlyaimed at protecting Americans from possible terrorist attacks.
No Iranian has ever been implicated in any known terrorist attack, but Saudi Arabia, where 15of the19 terroristsinvolved in the September 11 attacks came from, is not in the list.
