Iran’s parliament speaker Bagher Ghalibaf says peace in Lebanon cannot hold unless Iran plays what he describes as its stabilising role in the region, Al Jazeera reports.

Iran’s top negotiator made the remarks during a meeting in Tehran with Muhammad Fneish, a senior Hezbollah official who travelled to Iran to attend Khamenei’s funeral ceremonies.

He said Tehran had made Lebanon a central issue in negotiations that led to the signing of the Iran-US MoU, according to Iranian media.