This dynamic is reflected in a new a YouGov poll fielded by ReThink Media from February 2026 that shows 25% of Americans believe the patently false claim that Iran currently possesses nuclear weapons and 45% believe the also false, but slightly more subjective, claim that Iran has an active nuclear weapons program (“Iran does not have nuclear weapons but is working toward developing them,” as the poll question puts it). The annual threat assessment published in March 2025 by the US Director of National Intelligence clearly stated: “We continue to assess Iran is not building a nuclear weapon and that [Ayatollah Ali] Khamenei has not reauthorized the nuclear weapons program he suspended in 2003.” A finding affirmed it again just this week. Thus, only 5% of Americans agree with the consensus of the US intelligence community that Iran neither has nuclear weapons nor an active nuclear weapons program.