Kayhan devoted its editorial to the meeting of foreign ministers of the Arab and Russian Cooperation Forum in which Sergei Lavrov co-signed the final communique repeating the United Arab Emirates’ ownership claims over the three Iranian islands in the Persian Gulf.

It wrote: The Zionist regime has repeatedly announced that it considers the Islamic Republic of Iran to be its main and most powerful enemy. Now, it is possible to consider the untimely formation of this meeting and the baseless claim of the UAE sovereignty over the three Iranian islands of Greater and Lesser Tunbs and Abu Musa as another part of the project to coalesce with the Zionist regime in expressing its enmity with Islamic Iran. From the Arab countries present in the meeting, nothing is expected other than enmity with Islamic Iran and cooperation with the Zionist regime, but the Russian government must answer to its illegal move against the Islamic Republic of Iran. Mr. Lavrov is aware of many documents that indicate Iran's definite sovereignty over the three islands. Therefore, the position of the Russian government, even if it is a mistake, is a sign of betrayal, and the least we can expect from the diplomatic system of our country is to ask the Russian government to officially apologize for the action it has taken against the territorial integrity of Islamic Iran.

Iran: Illusory coalition

In a note, the Iran newspaper addressed the issue of forming a coalition against Yemen and said: With the intensification of attacks against Western commercial ships in the Red Sea destined for Israel, the Americans have claimed that the Yemeni resistance is carrying out such actions with the support of Iran. America's insistence on Iran's support for resistance groups, which has increased especially after numerous attacks against Western ships in the Red Sea, is due to the difficult conditions to help Israel and an increase in the diplomatic pressure on the American-Israeli alliance (in the war on Gaza). To divert the world's attention from Israel's wide-ranging attacks against the people of Gaza, America is trying to highlight the issue of Iran and consider its current predicament a result of Iran's greater support. These claims have been made while America has formed a coalition to protect the Red Sea, but Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and some other countries in the region have not shown any desire to do so. A refusal by Saudi Arabia and Egypt, two important countries bordering the Red Sea, to join the naval task force indicates the failure of the coalition as desired by Washington before its full formation.

Hamshahri: Israel's anger at quick action of the UN regarding Iran

In a commentary, Hamshahri addressed the anger of the Israeli representative to the United Nations over the UN Security Council’s condemnation of terror attack on an Iranian police outpost near the border with Pakistan wrote: The representative of Israel, as the Security Council had met on Gaza, did not tolerate the quick condemnation of the terrorist attack by the Jaish ul-Adl group on the Rask police headquarters in Iran's Sistan-Baluchestan province by the Security Council and criticized it. Claiming that terrorism must be condemned, Israeli diplomat Brett Jonathan Miller, in a pretension without the slightest hint at Tel Aviv's crimes against the Palestinians and America's comprehensive support for the regime, criticized the Security Council for not condemning Hamas. The anger of the representative of Israel in the Security Council was, in fact, due to the quick condemnation of the Rask terrorist attack. Certainly, issuing a statement quickly considering the existing international conditions, where the bombing of the Gaza Strip is a priority on the agenda of the entire world, including the United Nations, was a very difficult task. This action was only possible with the efforts of the diplomats of the Islamic Republic of Iran in New York.

Javan: Failure of oil sanctions against Iran

In an analysis, Javan discussed the decline of oil sanctions against Iran. It wrote: When the war between Israel and Hamas began, American diplomats blamed the Biden government for not fully enforcing oil sanctions against Iran. Though extensive sanctions on Iran remained in place after former U.S. President Donald Trump withdrew from the JCPOA, Iran's oil sales have increased. The rising demand for oil has pushed prices high as the coronavirus pandemic subsided. It caused small and independent refineries in China, which are in competition  with the bigger state-owned refineries, are looking for Iranian oil as Iran offers its oil at a discount. As sanctions have become the selected weapon of the West in the new era of great power competition, there will be far greater financial motivations for Beijing, Moscow and their trading partners, including Iran, around the world to facilitate sanctioned trade.