Democrats have asked Obama not to leave "fingerprints" on Iran.

SyuzhetyOppozitsiya to re Ahmadinedzhada22.06.2009V Tehran dispersed share protestaPredstaviteli Democratic Party of United States support the position of his odnopartiytsa, U.S. President Barack Obama, who prefers that the U.S. did not intervene in the situation Iran after the presidential election. Agency France Presse, quoting Diana Fainshtein (Dianne Feinstein), chairman of the Senate Committee on Intelligence: "It is very important that all this is not our fingerprints."
At the same time, representatives of the opposition Republican Party criticized Obama for his "too soft" position on this issue. For example, a former rival Obama in the presidential election, Senator John McCain of Arizona expressed frustration that, even French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel made a more rigorous statements about the dispersal of opposition demonstrations in Iran than Obama. "The United States should be on the right side - on the side of history - said McCain. - What kind of party - it is clear, it is only to look at the atrocities, creating on the streets of Tehran. And the United States did nothing."
Diana Fainshtein, for its part, said that the United States secretly supported by any organization not involved in the unrest in Tehran. "Frankly, I do not think that our security services are so good, - said Fainshtein. - I think that our ability to intervene and influence on events is extremely small."
Representatives of the Iranian authorities earlier said that unrest in the country after the presidential election were linked to the U.S. and British intervention. Thousands of people took to the streets to protest against the re-President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and arguing that the results of rigged elections. Unrest continued in Tehran a week and has already resulted in tens of deaths.
June 21, Obama appealed to the Iranian authorities not to forcibly disperse a protest in the country. He criticized the police beating of opposition and the use of tear gas.