The March 14 General Secretariat on Wednesday congratulated the Iranian people, especially the “reformist movement,” on the nuclear deal that was reached with world powers, hoping the agreement will lead to Hizbullah's “return to the Lebanese state.”

“The General Secretariat congratulates the friendly Iranian people, and the reformist movement, which has triumphed through managing to shift Iran from investing in the 'export of the revolution' and sponsoring violence and terrorism to investing in stability, economic prosperity and commercial competition,” it said in a statement issued after its weekly meeting.

The presidential elections were postponed on Wednesday for the 26th time following a lack of quorum at parliament.

Speaker Nabih Berri postponed the polls to August 12.

The kidnappers of a manager at al-Mawarid bank who was kidnapped early this week demanded $500 thousand ransom in order to free him, LBCI reported on Wednesday.

On Monday, Mohammed Abou Jakh, the manager of al-Mawarid bank branch in Chtaura was abducted at gunpoint by unknown assailants who were riding a black four-wheeler near the West Bekaa town of al-Rawda.

The Lebanese army announced that it halted on Tuesday an attempt to smuggle a surveillance drone to gunmen on the eastern mountain range.

The military said in a statement on Wednesday that it thwarted the smuggling of a Flying Cam, which was going to be used to spy on and photograph army locations.

A woman has admitted to killing her husband's daughter, a Syrian, in Blat Jbeil north of Beirut, for being paralyzed, the state-run National News agency reported Wednesday.

NNA said Nazliyeh Ziad Hammoud, 13, was found dead at her father's house at dawn Wednesday.

Prime Minister Tammam Salam has expressed confidence that Lebanon's Christians were not satisfied with the protests led by the Free Patriotic Movement of MP Michel Aoun against him.

“ I am sure through the reactions I have heard that the Christians were not satisfied with what the FPM did,” Salam, told his visitors, according to al-Joumhouria daily published on Wednesday.

Wanted Islamist cleric Sheikh Ahmed al-Asir had moved occasionally between the southern city of Sidon and the Palestinian refugee camp of Ain el-Hilweh, a suspect admitted to court on Tuesday.

According to al-Akhbar daily published on Wednesday, Alaa al-Moghrabi known as Hatem told the military court that one time a wanted cleric transported al-Asir from the northern city of Tripoli to Sidon from where he took him to Ain el-Hilweh.

Lebanese politicians had on Wednesday mixed reactions to a historic accord struck a day earlier by Iran, the United States, and five other world powers to check Tehran's nuclear efforts short of building a bomb.

Free Patriotic Movement leader MP Michel Aoun said the deal could have a positive impact on Lebanon's presidential elections. But stressed that granting Christians their rights cannot be influenced by any change in the world.

Speaker Nabih Berri revealed that Hizbullah and al-Mustaqbal Movement have made “new proposals” that would be on track to be implemented.

Berri, whose remarks were published in several local newspapers on Wednesday, told his visitors that the two parties' officials “made new suggestions on a win-win basis” during their latest round of talks.

The Change and Reform bloc condemned on Tuesday the silence over the “assaults committed against student demonstrators” in front of the Grand Serail last week, while demanding that agreements made over the cabinet's decision-taking power be respected.

MP Ibrahim Kanaan said after the bloc's weekly meeting: “It is everyone's duty to respect the agreements made at government regarding its mechanism.”