Nyorai kuenderera mberi kwechikamu chino - Mushure mekukakavadzana muna Chikumi 2009 sarudzo dzemutungamiri wenyika yeIran
, Obama akashora kudzvinyirira kwehurumende yeIran kupikisa kweIran Green Movement, boka revaratidziri ve pro-democracy. Obama akati: "tinoremekedza hurumende yeIran uye tinoda kudzivisa United States kuva nyaya iri mukati meIran, asi "Ndiri kunetseka zvikuru nechisimba chandanga ndichiona paterevhizheni. Ndinofunga kuti muitiro wedemokrasi - kutaura kwakasununguka, kukwanisa kwevanhu kusawirirana nenzira yorugare - zvose izvozvi zvinhu zvepasi pose uye zvinofanira kuremekedzwa". Pashure pokunge masimba masimba akawanda akanangidzirwa kuvaratidziri, Obama akataura, kuti: "United States noruzhinji rwenyika yose zvakavhundutswa nokutsamwiswa nokutyisidzirwa, kurohwa nokuiswa mutorongo kwamazuva mashomanene apfuura" uye zvakapa rutongeso rwakasimba rwe"izvi zviito zvisina kururama". Vamwe vanotsoropodza, kusanganisira mukwikwidzi wake mumushandirapamwe wemutungamiri wenyika wa2012 Mitt Romney, vakapa Obama mhosva, vachiti aifanira kunge akaita zvakawanda kutsigira Green Movement. Vamwe havana kubvumirana nazvo, vachicherechedza kuti sangano reGreen Movement haridi kana kuti haridi rutsigiro rwekunze kwenyika, uye vachitaura kuti kutsigira zvakananga kweU.S. kurwisa kweIran kungangodaro "kuchaderedza kutendeseka kwayo, uye zvichida kunyange kupa kuvimbika kune hurumende's assertion kuti sangano iri chirongwa chakafuridzirwa kunze kwenyika chichabira Iran rusununguko rwayo".