Tasnim Lebanese President Michel Aoun named the country's ambassador to Germany Mustapha Adib as the new prime minister after he secured the support of major political parties. A majority of lawmakers had to decide on whom to name as premier before Aoun tasked the candidate with forming a government. According to a Reuters tally of votes cast ...

IRNA Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in a meeting with Lebanese President Michel Aoun in Beirut expressed hope for maintaining stability in Lebanon by cooperation of all political parties. Zarif offered sympathy and solidarity with Lebanese president and people over recent explosion in Beirut port. Extending congratulations on ...

MNA Iranian President Hassan Rouhani held a phone talks with the Lebanese President Michel Aoun on Thursday, voicing Iran's readiness for any humanitarian cooperation and assistance with Lebanon. Expressing sympathy with Lebanese government and nation, Rouhani said, "Iranian government and nation, as always, will stand by the dear people of Lebanon,...

Tasnim Iranian President Hassan Rouhani congratulated Lebanon on the anniversary of liberation of its southern regions from Israeli occupation back in 2000. In a message to his Lebanese counterpart Michel Aoun on Sunday, Rouhani congratulated the government and nation of Lebanon on the anniversary of the major and glorious victory against the Zionist ...

IRNA - Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani on Monday submitted a letter from the Iranian President to his Lebanese counterpart Michel Aoun in which Hassan Rouhani had called for expansion of Tehran-Beirut ties. The letter explored ways to expand relations and President Hassan Rouhani invited the Lebanese president to travel to Iran. Larijani met ...

Press TV - Thousands of people in Lebanon have held a rally in support of President Michel Aoun, after more than two weeks of anti-government demonstrations that ultimately forced Prime Minister Saad Hariri to step down over a troubled economy. Supporters mostly rallied outside the presidential residence, the Baabda Palace, near the Lebanese capital,...

Press TV - Lebanon's President Michel Aoun has expressed solidarity with the protesters who have flooded the streets of the country in recent days,saying their agitation shows "people's pain." "What is happening in the streets expresses people's pain, but generalizing corruption (charges) against everyone carries big injustice," Aoun's office quoted ...

MNA The Spokesman for the Supreme National Security Council Keivan Khosravi says that releasing American-Lebanese national Nizar Zakka from Iranian prison on bail was based on Lebanese presidents demand and Hassan Nasrallahs mediation. Spokesman for the Supreme National Security Council Keivan Khosravi made the remarks in an interview with Alahed ...

IRNA Iranian Ambassador to Lebanon Mohammad Jalal Firouznia and the Lebanese President Michel Aoun reviewed ways to promote bilateral cooperation. During the meeting both sides discussed regional development. Earlier in a meeting with Lebanese officials in Sidon, Firouznia said the Islamic Republic of Iran will overcome this phase of sanctions ...

Press TV - Lebanese President Michel Aoun has strongly condemned US President Donald Trumps recognition of the occupied Syrian Golan Heights as sovereign Israeli territory, describing the measure as in blatant violation of international law and conventions. This threatens not only the sovereignty of a brotherly country and brotherly nation, but ...

Press TV - Lebanese President Michel Aoun has strongly dismissed latest allegations by the US ambassador to the Arab country that the Hezbollah resistance movement is now wielding more influence on the Beirut government. This is the US vision and it contradicts with reality. Hezbollah has maintained the same political presence it had in the previous ...

February 12, The Iran Project - Heading a high-ranking politico-economic delegation, Iran'sForeign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif paid a two-day official visit to the Lebanese capital of Beirut,holding separate talks with the senior officials in the Arab country to confer over a host of issues including expansion of political and economic relations....

IRNA Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif left Beirut for Tehran late on Monday after a two-day visit to the country. During his trip to Lebanon, Zarif held official talks with the countrys top-ranking officials including President Michel Aoun, his counterpart Jibran Bassil and Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri. Upon arrival in Beirut on Sunday,...

MNA Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, heading a high-ranking delegation, landed in Beirut at Sunday noon to hold talks with senior Lebanese officials. The top diplomat is scheduled to host several senior figures and representatives of the Lebanese and Palestinian parties at the Iranian Embassy in Beirut later today. On the second day of ...

Almanar - Lebanons Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri said after meeting President Michel Aoun that the national unity government needs to be formed as soon as possible. Hariri said he visited Baabda Presidential Palace on Tuesday to extend New Year greetings to President Aoun. The president and I are determined to meet again and end this issue,...

Press TV - Lebanese President Michel Aoun says he will do his best to find a solution to the political stalemate that is blocking the formation of a new national unity governmentin the Arab country more than six months after a general election. The matter requires bravery and patience to reach the end, but we will find the solution because waiting ...

Press TV - Lebanese Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri says all political sides have made concessions on their demands for posts in the next Cabinet, expressing hope that a new government would be formed after President Michel Aoun returns from a trip abroad. The economic situation requires everyone to compromise a bit for the sake of the country,...

Press TV - Lebanese President Michel Aoun says the Tel Aviv regime is attempting tocreate division in the Middle East, and split the region alongsocial and religious fault lines. In the Middle East Israel is trying tocarve upthe region intoa patchwork ofsecular and religious entities, quasi-states, ina bid toput together a sectarian puzzle, Aoun ...

IRNA | Osam Qobeisi: Hossein Jabrei Ansari, a senior assistant to Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has held talks with Lebanese officials in Beirut.  

Reuters - Lebanese President Michel Aoun said on Monday the U.S. withdrawal from world powers 2015 nuclear agreement with Iran would have negative consequences for Middle East stability. Aoun, a Maronite Christian politician, is a political ally of Lebanons Iran-backed Shiite Muslim group Hezbollah. The United States, which classifies Hezbollah ...