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

Monday’s headlines
HEMAYAT: Larijani says justice is not just distribution of money
JAVAN: Intl. network promoting Bahaism busted
TEHRAN-E EMROOZ: Ameneh Bahrami forgives her attacker (Ameneh Bahrami was blinded in an acid attack when she rejected an offer of marriage by her attacker Majid)
KHORASAN: Iraq has started construction of dams on border rivers with Iran, Ilam representative says
KAYHAN: Country’s longest twin-tube tunnel on Zanjan-Tabriz freeway inaugurated
SHARQ: Illegal piers are under investigation, Majlis Economic Committee deputy chairman says
FARHIKHTEGAN: Multiple sclerosis drugs will enter market in two weeks
QODS: Leader donates 200 million rials to Somalia’s famine-stricken people
MELLATEMA: Some people want to undermine Majlis, Ali Larijani says
HAMSHAHRI: I will counter the deviant current’s interference in Oil Ministry, Rostam Qasemi says
Leading article
JAVAN, in a news report, quotes MP Rouhollah Hosseinian as saying that the Islamic Revolution Resistance Front complements principlist front. Hosseinian, a founding member of the IRRF, says, “We have founded the front to complement and complete the chain of principlists.” Asked about the front’s plans to create maximum unity in the principlist camp, Hosseinian said, “We are negotiating to reach a unity” in the run-up to the March parliamentary elections through adherence to the principles. The cleric MP added that the front surely will not compete with the principlist front or the 15 persons representing various principlist groups.
TEHRAN-E EMROOZ, in a news report, quotes Deputy Energy Minister Ali Zabihi as saying that $2 billion has been saved in electricity consumption since the subsidy reform plant went into force. Zabihi said before the reform plan the electricity consumption rose eight percent annually, however, now not only the electricity consumption has not increased on a basis of annual eight percent it has also decreased two percent in comparison to the last year, and this shows a 10 percent decrease in electricity consumption which amounts to a 2 billion dollar saving from the subsidy reform.
IRAN, in a news report, quotes Rostam Qasemi, the nominee for the post of oil minister, as saying, “The oil industry is not faced with any major challenge and we will resolve the existing problems in cooperation with the Majlis and the administration.” Qasemi, who is the commander of the Khatam-ol-Anbiya Base, also said if he is approved as oil minister, he plans to develop joint oil and gas fields. Asked if he is facing any problem to travel abroad due to sanctions against him, Qasemi said, “I have been sanctioned by the United States not the United Nations. Therefore, I have no problem to travel to other countries. It is the U.S. that has imposed sanctions on me, and this country is not important.