Free Patriotic Movement leader MP Michel Aoun accused Lebanese universities of causing politically-motivated standoffs between students.

“Universities are the roots of clashes between students because they forbid political dialogue on campus,” Aoun said after Change and Reform bloc's weekly meeting.

A clash broke out Tuesday between students belonging to the Lebanese Forces and the Marada Movement at the Lebanese University's Faculty of Law and Political Science in Jal el-Dib, which prompted the intervention of the army.

A meeting was held at the faculty administration's office in a bid to resolve the dispute, state-run National News Agency reported.

President Michel Suleiman praised on Tuesday the deal reached between Iran and world powers over Tehran's nuclear program, hoping that it will reflect positively on the countries in the region.

He said in a statement: “We hope that ties between these countries will be improved in a manner that leads to a halt in the meddling of the affairs of others.”

Customs agents on Tuesday assaulted and arrested an al-Jadeed TV crew near the security agency's headquarters in downtown Beirut, which sparked protests and broad solidarity with the detained journalists.

The four journalists were released on Tuesday evening after several hours of detention.

The Trial Chamber of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon will hold a second Pre-Trial Conference on Monday, December 2, in preparation for the start of the trial in the Ayyash et al. Case, it announced in a statement on Tuesday.

The Pre-Trial Conference, which will be public, will begin at 3 p.m. Beirut time.

Al-Beddawi residents briefly blocked on Tuesday the international highway that links Tripoli to Akkar district to protest the transfer of an inmate to the Zgharta facility.

Several youth opened fire in the air while blocking the road, the state-run National News Agency reported.

Hizbullah MP Hassan Fadlallah criticized on Tuesday the politicization of the incident at Universite Saint Joseph at the Huvelin neighborhood in Beirut on Monday.

He said during a press conference: “Those who have been defeated on the political scene are taking out their frustrations and creating incitement through the USJ incident.”

One of the suicide bombers behind the attack against the Iranian embassy in Beirut last week had arrived in Lebanon from Kuwait two months ago, reported An Nahar daily on Tuesday.

It said that Moein Abu Dahr spent the two months residing in Lebanon and Syria and that he entered the countries using his identification card.

The Lebanese army had monitored the movement of the black Buick rigged with around 350 kilograms of explosives and seized it without any help offered by any side, media reports said on Tuesday.

According to As Safir newspaper, a security source denied reports saying that a specific party helped the army in seizing the explosive-laden car.

Lebanese marijuana grower Abu Sami is practically rubbing his hands together with glee: the Syrian conflict has paralyzed authorities at home and left the nearby border virtually uncontrolled.

"This year, the harvest was abundant, and the authorities have left us alone because they are otherwise occupied," he tells Agence France Presse in Lebanon's eastern Bekaa region.