NEW YORK -- According to a Gallup public opinion released recently by a U.S. institute, over 89 percent of Americans support normalization of ties with Iran.
The Foreign Policy Association of New York which is a political institute has conducted this polling throughout the U.S., coming up with the idea that most Americans are interested in resumption of diplomatic ties with Iran. Only four percent of those questioned opposed thee idea.
Some 64 percent of Americans opposed the U.S. government's sanctions against Iran, while 24 percent of them said the sanctions should continue until Tehran accepts all U.S. conditions.
Some 73 percent of the participants in the poll asked the government to lift the restrictions on U.S. companies to do trade in Iran, while 16 percent of them said they should still exist in place.
According to the association, some 28,028 people participated in the polling.
The U.S. severed diplomatic ties with Iran after the students following the Imam's line stormed its embassy in Tehran in 1979 and took its staff hostage for 444 days.
Washington has shown green lights for better ties after the landslide victory of President Mohammad Khatami in 1997. Tehran has shrugged off these calls, saying the American government should apologize for its wrong-doings in the past against Iran.
The two countries have however exchanged several sports and scientific delegations after Khatami came into office and low-level contacts between the foreign ministries of the two countries have become routine.
(IRNA)