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PRESS REVIEW – Monday, March 2: We look at reactions from across the Middle East to the killing of Iran's supreme leader and ahead to what might be next for the region. Meanwhile in the Western press, US President Donald Trump is slammed as seeking a "Nobel War Prize".
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The Tehran Times, loyal to the Iranian regime, bears a sobre, monochrome photograph of the late supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on its front page, with the headline "For Iran's independence and glory". Over in Lebanon, Hezbollah-aligned Al-Akhbar leads with a drawing of Khamenei, with the headline "Resist".
Staying in Lebanon, L'Orient-Le Jour hails "the tearing of the axis", celebrating Khamenei's death as a blow to the Islamic Republic. On the inside pages, journalists break down various possible outcomes to the current crisis: the capitulation of Tehran as supplies run out, the backing down of Washington should its allies in the Gulf lose patience, or the toppling of the Iranian regime from within. The commentator deems the latter scenario the least likely.
In Israel, Haaretz focuses on Israeli casualties in the Iranian missile strikes, and comments on an Iranian regime showing "no signs of surrender".
Meanwhile in the West, indictments of Donald Trump are abundantly available: French paper L'Humanité says that the US president is seeking a Nobel Prize for War, while The Times jibes that "less than two weeks after the first meeting of his Board of Peace, President Trump grew bored of peace."
Finally, commentary in the US is sharply divided between those who take Trump's motive of liberating the Iranian people at face value, and those who fear that this weekend's interventions will not bring an end to the tyranny.