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

Tuesday’s headlines
HAMSHAHRI: U.S. and Zionists’ interventions threaten tranquility in Lebanon
HAMSHAHRI: MPs make remarks about ‘global prize of transportation’ to Tehran Municipality
JAM-E JAM: Nasrallah says we would not support the corrupt government in Lebanon
HEMAYAT: Majlis speaker says sanctions have paved the way for Iran’s progress
HEMAYAT: Iran to sue the Zionist regime at international bodies for assassination of scientist
JAVAN: Official says do not wait for increase in house prices
KAYHAN: Nasrallah says Hariri was brought down for his compromise with U.S.
IRAN: Supreme National Security Council chief tells NBC that fruitless sanctions brought the West back to negotiations with Iran
IRAN: Official says 100,000 civil servants would be employed within the next five years
KHORASAN: Majlis presiding board warns about satanic provocations by the UAE about three islands and Bushehr power plant
DONYA EQTESAD: China and U.S. heading toward economic cold war or ceasefire?
Leading articles
KAYHAN in a reference to the shaky condition of Arab governments in follow-up to the collapse of the Tunisian regime, quotes American newspaper ‘Boston Globe’ which has desperately confessed that the time is ripe for Iran to play a leading role in the region. Even the West intelligence and security officials have admitted that during the last three decades Iran has powerfully foiled all military, economic, political and cultural options of the enemy. The U.S. newspaper, quoting renowned linguist and social activist Noam Chomsky, says Washington can not dictate its wishes on Iran. Even in the “soft war” the West has failed. Syrian newspaper Tishrin says Arabs’ problem is that “they rely on the U.S.” and their system is based on despotism and dictatorship, while the Islamic Republic is run by a system of religious democracy.
JOMHURI ESLAMI discusses the problems facing the print media. The editorialist says with the implementation of the subsidy reform plan the costs of newspapers have dramatically increased as transportation prices have gone up, something which the editorialists says may eventually lead to the closure of many newspapers. The government has not offered any aid to the print media and even it refuses to pay its legal dues. The editorialist says in the upcoming weeks the prices of water, electricity and gas would rise up, then who will be able to pay these heavy expenditures at a time that the economy is in recession and advertisements in newspapers by the private sector has decreased heavily!