Hizbullah Secretary-General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah held a meeting with an Iranian delegation headed by deputy head of the Iranian Islamic Council Mohammed Rida Bahunar.
The two sides tackled the latest developments in the region and the bilateral ties, according to As Safir newspaper published on Thursday.

Spanish journalist Javier Espinosa has arrived in Lebanon from Syria, his employer the El Mundo newspaper said Wednesday.
The correspondent, who survived a bombardment in Homs that killed American journalist Marie Colvin and French photographer Remi Ochlik had "left Syria and was in Lebanon in perfect health", the newspaper wrote on its website.

U.N. leader Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday named Norman Farrell of Canada as the new prosecutor of the U.N.-backed Special Tribunal for Lebanon, which is probing the 2005 assassination of former prime minister Rafik Hariri.
Farrell takes over as chief STL prosecutor from another Canadian, Daniel Bellemare, whose three year mandate ended Wednesday. The court has charged four Hizbullah members over the assassination.

Speaker Nabih Berri on Wednesday said Lebanon had concerns Israel might deny it “its right to more than 850 nautical square kilometers” in maritime resources, stressing that “the problem is not between Lebanon and Cyprus, but rather between Lebanon and Israel.”
During a joint press conference with his Cypriot counterpart Yiannakis Omirou in Cyprus, where he arrived Wednesday on an official visit, Berri said “the U.N. has recently become convinced that it has to intervene in order to resolve this issue,” referring to the disputed oil and gas resources.

Phalange Party leader Amin Gemayel blamed on Wednesday Israel for the ongoing state of instability in the Middle East.
He said: “Israel’s rejection of peace is contributing to the emergence of extremists in the region.”

Wounded photographer Paul Conroy was taken to Britain's embassy in the Lebanese capital Beirut after he was smuggled out of the besieged Syrian city of Homs, Prime Minister David Cameron said Wednesday.
"I can tell the House that Paul Conroy is now safe," Cameron told parliament. "He has been in our embassy in Beirut in Lebanon, he has been properly looked after and I am sure that soon he will want to come home."

The March 14 General Secretariat condemned on Wednesday Defense Minister Fayez Ghosn’s statements from Iran, deeming them as insulting to the Lebanese people.
It said in a statement after its weekly meeting: “We demand that he clarify his statements and call on the parliamentary defense council to convene to question him.”

President Michel Suleiman stressed on Wednesday that the Lebanese economy was able to withstand the world financial crisis as the region suffered from a political unrest.
He said during the opening of the businessmen forum in Romania that Lebanon’s economy had attracted investments that mounted to $4 billion.

Speaker Nabih Berri confirmed on Wednesday a report that he is exerting efforts to make Beirut a permanent base for dialogue among religions and different confessions.
In remarks to the new administrative authority of Arab newspaper reporters, Berri said he began working on his idea through contacts with several officials in the past few months.

Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat stressed that the cabinet is asked to meet the interests of the Lebanese citizens and priorities instead of engaging in useless debates.
“The citizens must have their priorities met, especially (in) the electricity” sector, Jumblat told An Nahar newspaper on Wednesday.
