At the Baabda Palace, Ansari handed President Michel Aoun a letter from Rouhani about Iran's stance on the nuclear agreement with world powers.

Lebanon’s President Michel Aoun in the meeting with Iranian Foreign Minister's Special Assistant for Political Affairs Hossein Jaberi Ansari and his accompanying delegation in Beirut said the United States' move to withdraw from a nuclear agreement Iran signed with the P5+1 group of countries in 2015 will have negative impacts on stability in the Middle East.

Ansari later held talks in Ain el-Tineh with Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri.

“We hope brotherly Lebanon will witness further stability, unity and rapprochement, and we hope, after the successful parliamentary elections, that a new Lebanese government will be formed through political consensus among the various parties,” the Iranian official said after the meeting.

Speaking after talks later in the day with caretaker Foreign Minister Jebran Bassil, Ansari said “a political solution to the Syrian crisis would not only benefit Syria but also the entire region.