The column ‘Persian Press Review’ features the headlines and leading articles carried by Farsi dailies.

Saturday’s headlines
IRAN: Premature retirement case will be closed soon
FARHIKHTEGAN: Bushher nuclear power plant opens after a 24-year delay
JAVAN: IRGC says will respond firmly to any military threat by the enemy
HEMAYAT: Flour will be provided to bakeries at a global price
DONYA-E EQTESAD: Commerce minister says special measures have been adopted to encounter sanctions
GOSTARESH SANAT: Iran to build 6 new factories in Syria
TAFAHOM: Government supports private insurance
TEHRAN-E EMROOZ: Tehran Mayor Qalibaf warns on the gap between clerics and people
Leading articles
JAM-E JAM in its editorial writes that “The last American combat brigade pulled out of Iraq and crossed into Kuwait at dawn on Thursday, almost seven and a half years after the U.S.-led invasion ousted Saddam Hussein,” a U.S. military spokesman said, according to Jakarta Globe.” President Obama in a letter appreciated military men and confirmed that Washington will withdraw its forces from the country until 2011. Seven and half years ago, the U.S. along with its allies claimed the then Iraqi regime was seeking weapons of mass destruction and used this as a pretext and invaded Iraq. U.S. forces are pulling back at a time when insecurity still runs high in Iraq and the country is grappling with a ‘political limbo’ (failure to form government). Currently 56,000 U.S. forces are stationed in Iraq which will be reduced to 50,000 within the next few days. The spokesman of Pentagon has announced the withdrawal of U.S. forces by no means is the end of war in Iraq. The Iraqi people should know that the Americans have not actually withdrawn from their country, but they have only changed their mission.
RESALAT in a commentary writes that psychologists believe if someone is able to manage psychological pressure he can also prevent depression. The enemies have been always been putting psychological pressure on the Iranians to break up their unity. During the Constitutional Revolution people, through their unity, could overcome foreign and domestic dictators and put forward their demands for justice, freedom and progress. But the mental warfare waged on the people and the plots hatched by the enemy brought the nation to its knees. The leaders of the movement could not manage the psychological pressure on people and themselves. These pressures led to ‘political depression’ and under these circumstances no one was in the mood to defend the system and the people. The leaders of the constitutional movement were hanged, imprisoned, and eventually isolated to the extent that no one even expressed desire to mention their name. The colonial forces then put in power a dictator which ruled over the country for two decades. The Constitutional Revolution and the nationalization of oil movement found a rather similar destiny. However, the Islamic Revolution was a successful experience. The role of velayat-e faqih (rule of the supreme jurisprudence) in managing psychological pressure on the nation could not be ignored. The Supreme Leader has always encouraged national unity and weathered psychological pressures through his knowledge, justice, bravery and farsightedness. On Wednesday, the Leader, addressing officials, said, “During the last year the enemy has always intensified its psychological and media war. The main objective behind all these pressures is to create political, social, and cultural rift through a political earthquake with a magnitude of 10 on the Richter scale to destroy all pillars of the system …”
JOMHURI ESLAMI in its article says the United States and the Zionist regime are using the threat of military attack as a tool in their psychological warfare against the Islamic Republic. U.S. officials every now and then say that Obama has not ruled out military option against Iran. Even former U.S. ambassador to UN John Bolton has advised the Zionists to destroy Bushher nuclear power plant before it is too late. Referring to the same threats, the Leader said, “If such threats are materialized, the scope of confrontation would not be restricted just to our region.” The writer concludes that the U.S. administration will not seek military option against Iran for two reasons: the clear-cut speech of the Supreme Leader and its military defeats in Afghanistan and Iraq.