Al-Mustaqbal parliamentary bloc of Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri on Tuesday urged all political parties to be “realistic” in their demands regarding the line-up of the new government.

President Michel Aoun on Tuesday reassured a delegation from the Association of Banks in Lebanon that there will be “no turning back” economically after “the general situation in the country witnessed a tangible improvement in the past two weeks.”

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif announced Tuesday that Tehran is willing to cooperate with “all Lebanese sects and components,” on the second day of an official visit to Lebanon.

Visiting Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has held talks with Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, state-run National News Agency reported.

Firefighters and army helicopters were on Tuesday battling a huge wildfire that has been raging since Monday evening in the forests of the Keserwan town of Ain el-Rihaneh and the Daroun Valley.

The Shiite community will be represented by six ministerial portfolios in the new cabinet, including three for Speaker Nabih Berri and three for Hizbullah that is inclined to give one of them to a March 8 ally, a media report said.

Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri and Lebanon's banks will launch a “preemptive battle” to keep Central Bank Governor Riad Salameh in his post after the formation of the new government, a media report said.

MP Walid Jumblat's Democratic Gathering bloc might propose the appointment of Ayman Shqeir and the MPs Marwan Hamadeh and Talal Arslan as ministers in Saad Hariri's government, a media report said on Tuesday.

The detention in Iran of Lebanese citizen and U.S. permanent resident Nizar Zakka is a “U.S. Iranian problem,” Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said during an official visit to Lebanon on Monday, as the man's family urged that he be repatriated to Lebanon.

The Kataeb Party announced Monday that it is ready to “cooperate” with President Michel Aoun on the implementation of the platform that he announced in his oath of office.