“It is my gut feeling that Iran would like to have the technology to enable it to have nuclear weapons,” Dr. ElBaradei, the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency said in the interview at the organization’s headquarters in Vienna. He said he believed Iran’s “ultimate aim” was to be “recognized as a major power in the Middle East.”Nuclear weapons technology, he said, was “the road to get that recognition, to get that power and prestige. It is also an insurance policy against what they have heard in the past about regime change.”
