Press Review – Monday, March 2: We look at reactions across the Middle East to the assassination of Iran’s supreme leader and what’s next for the region. Meanwhile, in the Western press, US President Donald Trump has been criticized for seeking a “Nobel war prize”.
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Tehran TimesLoyal to the Iranian regime, it features a monochrome photograph of the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on its cover with the caption “For the Freedom and Glory of Iran”. In Lebanon, Hezbollah-aligned Al-Akhbar Leads with a sketch of Khamenei titled “Resist.”
Staying in Lebanon, L’Orient-Le Jour Celebrating Khamenei’s death as a blow to the Islamic Republic, hailing it as “the tearing apart of the Axis”. In the inside pages, journalists dissect the various possible outcomes of the current crisis: Tehran’s capitulation as supplies run out, Washington’s retreat if its allies in the Gulf lose patience, or the overthrow of the Iranian regime from within. The narrator considers the latter scenario less likely.
In Israel, Haaretz Focuses on Israeli casualties from Iranian missile strikes and comments on the Iranian regime showing “no signs of capitulation”.
Meanwhile in the West, indictments of Donald Trump are in abundance: French paper L’Humanite US President Says He Wants Nobel Prize for War The Times “Two weeks after the first meeting of his peace council, President Trump is tired of peace,” Gibbs said.
Ultimately, commentary in the US is sharply divided between those who take Trump’s intention to liberate the Iranian people at face value and those who fear that this weekend’s interventions will not bring an end to the tyranny.
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