Washington Post - By Richard Perle: "A successful multilateral coalition" is how Condoleezza Rice described those countries, "united in confronting Iran," on which the administration's Iran policy critically depends. "A complete failure" is Barack Obama's description of the Bush administration's Iran policy.

New York Times: For more than five years now, President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney have made clear that they did not want to leave office with Iran any closer to possessing nuclear weapons than when they took office.

Los Angeles Times - Editorial: Finally, Europe is ready to step up sanctions. Stonewalling. Obfuscation. Threats. Two years of Iranian intransigence have removed any doubt that the leadership in Tehran is determined to develop the technology for a nuclear bomb -- if not the weapons themselves -- as quickly as possible.

Washington Post - Editorial: Though it was hardly noticed in Washington, Iraq's Shiite-led government sent a powerful message to Iran and to the Middle East last week.

Arizona Republic: After Tuesday's primaries, both Barack Obama and John McCain gave what amounted to opening statements for the general election.

Wall Street Journal (Europe): In a Middle East full of dissenters and conspiracy theorists, there are usually at least ten interpretations of any noteworthy event. So perhaps most remarkable about Hezbollah's recent power play in Beirut is how uniform commentary has been.

Washington Post - Editorials: Will there be consequences for Tehran's stonewalling of U.N. nuclear inspectors? Last August, the International Atomic Energy Agency struck a deal with Iran on a "work plan" for clearing up outstanding questions about its nuclear program within three months -- in other words, before December 2007.

Washington Times: Let me get this straight. It's perfectly fair for Barack Obama and his cohorts to repeatedly disparage President Bush's foreign policy as "cowboy diplomacy" but unspeakably horrific for Mr. Bush to analogize the Democrats' approach to foreign policy to appeasing Adolf Hitler?

Boston Globe: The Massachusetts Pension Reserves Investment Management Board invests hundreds of millions of public employees' pension dollars in foreign oil companies that do business with Iran's energy industry. These investments are a bad deal for Massachusetts and should be sold.

San Jose Mercury News - By Bob Filner and Lord Corbett: Peace movements always struggle with the balancing act of wanting to engage enemies without appeasing them. Peace activists don't want war, but they also recognize that peace at any price can be costly. In the case of Iran, these choices are becoming painful and difficult.

Washington Times - Editorial: Make no mistake about it, the quick, brutal display of raw military power by Hezbollah in the past six days is a window into the grim future of Lebanon and the broader Middle East: a future in which Iran and Syria are ascendant and have lost much of their fear of the United States and Israel.

Washington Times - Editorial: As President Bush enters his final months in office, there are mounting signs of disarray when it comes to current U.S. policy towards Iran and North Korea. The three remaining plausible candidates to succeed him — Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and John McCain — have yet to explain how thier policies will differ from the current administration.

Los Angeles Times - By Leonard S. Spector and Avner Cohen: After overestimating the Iraq threat, U.S. intelligence agencies are now dangerously underestimating Syria and Iran.

Washington Times - By Lord Fraser: Even as the U.N. Security Council was implementing its third round of sanctions against Iran over its nuclear weapons activities, the council's five veto-wielding permanent members — Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States — and Germany met in London Friday to expand a 2006 offer of economic incentives to Iran in return for a freeze on uranium enrichment.

Washington Times - Editorial: The president's decision to nominate Gen. David Petraeus, whose counterinsurgency plan has dramatically improved the situation in Iraq, to head U.S. Central Command, is a superb choice. As head of Central Command, Gen. Petraeus will oversee the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. He will be replaced as commander in Iraq by Gen. Raymond Odierno, who in February completed a 15-month tour of duty as Gen. Petraeus's top deputy.

Washington Post: The era of nonproliferation is over. During the first half-century of the nuclear age, safety lay in restricting the weaponry to major powers and keeping it out of the hands of rogue states. This strategy was inevitably going to break down. The inevitable has arrived.