In an article entitled "Awaiting a Bellicose Sharon", Iran's IRNA news agency reports that the Palestinian Authority "is seriously bracing itself for the looming probability of Ariel Sharon becoming the Zionist state's next Prime Minister." IRNA notes that the "'dropping of Barak from PA calculations' has taken many expressions of late, including a scathing attack on Barak's regime by Yasser Arafat before the World Economic Forum in Davos in Switzerland on January 28th."