YOU KNOW, HE JUST MAY BE RIGHT - AT 6:58 A.M. ET: 

PARIS —Mohamed ElBaradei, the head of the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog agency, said it was his “gut feeling” that Iran’s leaders wanted the technology to build nuclear weapons “to send a message to their neighbors, to the rest of the world: don’t mess with us.”

He was speaking in a BBC interview broadcast Tuesday and Wednesday as protesters took to the streets of Teheran and other cities, demanding that last Friday’s disputed election result be overturned and confronting President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad with the leadership’s biggest domestic challenge since the Islamic revolution three decades ago.

COMMENT:  I'm glad the gentleman's gut is finally coming up with the correct answers.  Now if he brain engages, he might be able to propose a solution.

June 17, 2009