Youm quoted the Bahraini foreign minister as saying that whenever the GCC countries extend a hand carrying olive to Iran, they were receiving a handful of evil. The newspaper said Iran has never given up its expansionist objective in our region. The GCC countries auger well when an Islamist regime came to power in Tehran. But, on the contrary, Iran is day after day heading for extremism, al -Youm said. The Abha-based Al-Watan titled its editorial "smokes of bombs in Lebanon will not hide the aggression of Al-Assad". The incidents in Tripoli are the design of Syrian regime puppets in Lebanon who could not hide the relation between the bloody regime in Damascus and those in Lebanon. It warned that Hezbollah would not hesitate to send Lebanon in an all-out chaos if that would help the Syrian regime to survive. Al-Sharq said the threat by some elements in the Syrian National Council to withdraw from its membership raises real fears that the solution of the Syrian crisis might be delayed further. It said this development comes at a time the Syrian opposition needs to be more intact and united to face the aggression of Al-Assad's regime. Al-Madinah's editorial dealt with the issue of "change", noting that the issue did not receive in-depth study as to from where the factors of change came, how they reach our region and whether it is possible to ward them off. The paper concluded that the crisis which kicked off at a bankrupt bank in the U.S. and caused the sufferings in the underdeveloped countries to give birth to the Arab revolutions would not stop to that end as the world of today is a very tiny village.
