Lugar: Possible 'Very Brutal' End to Iran Chaos

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Sen. Richard Lugar says Iran's supreme leader has pushed the conflict there toward a ''very brutal outcome.''

The Indiana Republican, one of the Senate's most respected voices on foreign affairs, says Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has put himself in the center of the postelection uprising. Lugar faults the Iranian leader for refusing to give in to demonstrators' demands for a rerun of the June 12 election that returned President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to office.

Lugar says that has laid the ground for a ''potentially very brutal outcome at the end of the day.''

Lugar spoke on CNN's ''State of the Union.''

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/06/21/us/politics/AP-US-Lugar-Iran.html

[av8rdave]

1. Sadly, I am very afraid that he may be right

[hobbit709]

2. Revolutions as a rule aren't pretty before they're over.

[msongs]

3. hypocrite Lugar - did he call for a revote after Bush/Gore 2000? nt

[peacetalksforall]

4. Sen. Lugar is a vote thief. He has no voice with me, but the NYT seems to love him..