This column features excerpts from the editorials, commentaries, and news articles of the leading Iranian newspapers.

Sunday’s headlines
HAMSHAHRI: Capital punishment for psychotropic drugs smugglers
KHORASAN: Study conducted on the impact of energy subsidy reform plan on low income class
JAHAN SANAT: Iran imports $10 billion worth of goods from littoral states of Persian Gulf in six months
TAFAHOM: Economist predicts three percent increase in Iran’s economic growth
HEMAYAT: Old neighborhoods of Tehran are awaiting Mehr housing facilities
QODS: Iran and Qatar to conduct war games
IRAN: Official says new wave of price falls coming
JAVAN: Moslehi discloses Obama has confessed his failure to cope with the might of Iran’s intelligence
JAHAN SANAT: Four ministers answer questions of MPs on the subsidy reform plan
SIASAT ROOZ: Hezbollah says Saudi-Syrian plan is the best solution to UN’s investigation on Hariri’s assassination
SOBHE EQTESAD: Strict punishment for violators of subsidy reform plan
Leading articles
RESALAT in an editorial focuses on the first anniversary of “the 9th of Dey” (30th Dec. 2009) in which millions of people poured into the streets in Tehran and other cities to show their anger over a desecration of sanctities by some protestors on Ashura day in follow-up to the post-presidential unrest last year. The turnout in Tehran was spectacular. In this historic day, people put an end to the plots hatched by the opponents inside and outside of the country. The massive turnout on the 9th of Dey proved that people do not sit idle by to see that a seditious group challenge sanctities. The writer says popular movements at certain junctures of history are so powerful that can dry up the roots of mischievous plots.
TEHRAN-E EMROOZ in an article discusses a conference on brain drain held in Shahid Beheshti University. Addressing the conference, Ali Akbar Salehi, acting foreign minister, said we can not prevent the migration of Iranians and this issue is a reality. However, he ruled out the view that nothing can be done to prevent brain drain and expressed regret over the increasing number of Iranian engineers, physicians and journalists who are leaving the country. He asked: Who are going to run the country in the next 10 or 15 years