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

Monday’s headlines
KAYHAN: President returns to presidential office
HAMSHAHRI: Salehi will meet his Egyptian counterpart
JAME JAM: Ahmadinejad says government if fully committed to the principle of velayat-e faqih (rule of the supreme jurisprudent)
JAVAN: International Monetary Fund says it will revise statistics about economic growth in Iran
HEMAYAT: Mehmanparast says U.S. is the greatest violator of human rights
KHORASAN: Majlis gives authority to the government to decide about the amount of increase in civil servants’ salary
SHARQ: The largest fall in history of Iran’s stock market
IRAN: Unity between Hamas and Fatah is a consequence of Islamic awakening, says Mohsen Rezai
TAFAHOM: Central bank declares 50 million rial (about 5000 dollars) loan for marriage
QODS: Iran’s response to 5+1 group on the president’s desk
DONYA EGHTESAD: Inflation rate in Farvardin reached 13.2 percent (Farvardin is first month of Iranian calendar year which ended April 20)
SHARQ: All Iranian high school will be changed into technical college
Leading articles
According to HAMSHHRI, Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) director Ezatollah Zarghami says “in cabinet session I presented a report to the president about the enemies’ efforts who took advantage of the recent issues (in our country).” Zarqhami told reporters after the cabinet meeting that during the past few days the foreign TV networks affiliated to the hegemonistic powers created a commotion about the situation in Iran. “During this time the enemies made lots of efforts, held celebrations, and were happy that they had found a hole to do damage to the revolution,” the IRBI chief noted. He went on to say that it was his duty to inform the president about the environment “even though I believe that he was not unaware of these issues.” He adds, “There is no impasse in our country” and everything has been predicted in the constitution.
JAVAN in a news report quotes Science Minister Kamran Daneshjoo as saying Western countries seek to shape the mind of Iranian students but the Islamic Republic of Iran can develop the university curriculums based on religious teachings. The minister said students are physically “here” but they are mentally hundreds of miles away from the Iranian culture. It has been years that our universities have been the backyards of Western thoughts, the minister noted. He also said it seems that the humanities in universities are somewhat influenced by Western culture and that the students are influenced by Max Weber (a German sociologist and political economist), Jean-Jacques Rousseau (Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer of 18th-century Romanticism), John Locke (an English philosopher and physician), Jürgen Habermas (a German sociologist and philosopher), Samuel Phillips Huntington (an American political scientist), and Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (German philosopher) although these scientific figures discussed some matters of substance, still they were close to Western cultures