In the UK and international press today, Reuters and the Independent report that Iran announced that it will shift its production of enriched uranium to an underground bunker, and that it plans to triple its production capacity. The Independent notes that Iran sent submarines to patrol in the Red Sea. Most papers continue to report on the ongoing state violence taking place in Syria towards anti-regime protesters. The Guardian notes that former UK prime minister Tony Blair said that the West needs a wider plan to deal with the Arab Spring. BBC Online, the Telegraph and the Independent note that Israeli settlers attacked a mosque in the village of El Mughriah near Ramallah in the West Bank on Tuesday. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the IDF immediately condemned the attack and opened an investigation into the incident.

In the Israeli press, Haaretz and the Jerusalem Post note that the Palestinian leadership is divided over whether to pursue plans to seek Palestinian statehood through the UN General Assembly in September. In other news, most papers report that the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and Gaza was reopened yesterday. Haaretz and Ynetnews note that Iran has blamed Israel and the US for trying to provoke a regional war. The papers note that Iran announced it has plans to triple its production capacity to create enriched uranium for its nuclear programme. Haaretz and IBA News report that Israel lodged a complaint to the UN against Syria over the recent attempts by Palestinian Syrians to infiltrate the Israeli border in the Golan Heights. Haaretz and the Jerusalem Post note that Netanyahu condemned the attack on a mosque in the West Bank on Tuesday as a “criminal act”.