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.

Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat has announced that “there can be no government without the Shiite duo,” in reference to Hizbullah and Speaker Nabih Berri's AMAL Movement.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif held talks Monday in Baabda with newly-elected President Michel Aoun as part of an official visit to Lebanon that will also include meetings with other top Lebanese officials.