President Joseph Aoun on Tuesday told visiting Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi that “Lebanon is looking forward to enhancing state-to-state relations with Iran.”

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi arrived Tuesday in Beirut on an official visit and met with President Joseph Aoun and Speaker Nabih Berri.

On Beirut's chaotic, car-choked streets, Lebanese student Fatima Fakih rides a shiny purple bus to university, one of a fleet rolled out by authorities to revive public transport in a country struggling to deliver basic services.

The 19-year-old says the spacious public buses are "safer, better and more comfortable", than the informal network of private buses and minivans that have long substituted for mass transport.

Lebanese security forces have arrested Hezbollah member Mahmoud Ayoub in the Nabatieh district town of Harouf on charges of collaborating with Israeli intelligence services, sources told Al-Arabiya’s Al-Hadath channel on Monday.

A “region-by-region” plan for Hezbollah’s disarmament may be proposed when “serious dialogue” kicks off between President Joseph Aoun and Hezbollah, a media report said on Monday.

The United Nations Special Coordinator for Lebanon, Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, began Monday a visit to Israel, where she is set to meet with senior officials, her office said.

U.S. Deputy Special Envoy for the Middle East Morgan Ortagus is expected to visit Lebanon at the end of this week, in a visit that might be her last before she moves to another post in the U.S. administration, media reports said.

Prime Minister Nawaf Salam said Monday that his "doors are always open" for Hezbollah after he met with Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri in Ain el-Tineh, as the gap between Salam and Berri's ally Hezbollah seemed to widen over the group's disarmament.

"I am leaving plenty of room for cordiality with (Hezbollah MP) Hajj Mohammad Raad and my doors are always open for him and Hezbollah," Salam said.

Iraq's Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani on Sunday condemned Israeli attacks on Lebanon as he hosted Lebanese President Joseph Aoun, on his first visit to Baghdad since taking office.

Israel has continued to strike Lebanon despite a November ceasefire that ended more than a year of conflict -- including two months of open war -- with militant group Hezbollah, which emerged severely weakened.

Lebanon's health ministry has said that Israeli strikes on the country's south killed two people, as the Israeli army said it targeted Hezbollah members in the latest raids despite a ceasefire.

The ministry said an "Israeli enemy" strike targeted a motorcycle in Arnoun, a village in the Nabatiyeh region about five kilometers from the Israeli border, killing one person.