Madinah newspaper highlighted the flexibility of the Syrian coalition opposition's resigned chairman Ahmed Maaz Al-Khatib and his realism that was clearly demonstrated by his initiative which is identical to the GCC initiative towards Yemen calling on the Syrian opposition to unite around the initiative of Al-Khatib. Al-Watan newspaper questioned the sincerity of the intentions of Al-Assad regime in agreeing in principle to participate in the Geneva 2 conference. Al-Sharq newspaper stressed the lack of political will on the part of Tehran to build special relations with the neighboring countries.