Key senator bucks Bush, urges US-Iran talks - Yahoo! News

Key senator bucks Bush, urges US-Iran talks - Yahoo! News: "Sun Apr 16, 4:00 PM ET

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States should hold direct talks with
Iran on its nuclear program and go slow on pressing for sanctions, contrary to Bush administration strategy, the
Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman said on Sunday.
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Breaking with
President George W. Bush's insistence on a multilateral approach through the
U.N. Security Council, Sen. Richard Lugar (news, bio, voting record) said direct U.S. talks with Iran would be useful as part of a broad dialogue on energy."