Richard Lugar actually said...

"you have mentioned one specific idea that could be used to reach out to the Iranian people, and that is the Voice of America Persian language service."

"He famously writes in his book he got a long message from Iran saying we would now like to explore other options for negotiations with the United States."

"this is, I suspect, another avenue of diplomacy that is related to Iran."

"this is something that we should be talking about and planning for right now."