Bush and Hawks Try Preemptive Strike vs. Iran Vote by Jim Lobe

Meanwhile, Sen. Sam Brownback, a Christian Right leader close to both hardline neoconservatives and Iranian-American followers of Reza Pahlavi, the ambitious, U.S.-based son of the former shah, charged in a floor speech that the elections were "bogus," while at AEI headquarters across town, a discussion on the elections featured a presentation by a founder of the Revolutionary Guard Corps, Mohsen Sazegara of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, who predicted, "No matter who wins the presidential elections, there will be no real changes in Iran's domestic or foreign policy."