TEHRAN – Lebanese President Michel Suleiman has called on Iran to help strengthen unity among Lebanese political parties.

Suleiman made the remarks in a meeting with members of an Iranian parliamentary delegation in Beirut on Tuesday.
Suleiman said unity is the key to resistance against Israeli threats.
The president also said Israel learned great lessons from its 33-day war against Lebanon including a lesson that it should return the occupied lands to their true owners.
He went on to say that Israel is now designing its defense system in a way that it can protect itself against missiles fired from other countries.
The two sides discussed developments in the region, particularly in Lebanon.
Suleiman also expressed satisfaction with the status of religious minorities in Iran, saying religious minorities are respected in a system which is based on real democracy.
In such a system, religious minorities do not live on the margins of society, he added.
He noted that the capitalist system has failed and stressed the importance of having a change in the world’s economic system.
MP Mohammad Reza Bahonar, who is heading the Iranian delegation, congratulated Suleiman and the Lebanese people on the establishment of their new government.
Bahonar, Iran’s deputy parliament speaker, also said this visit will set the scene for expanding relations between the two countries.
Elsewhere in his remarks, Bahonar said the Zionist regime once had military supremacy over the region, but the Lebanese government and resistance movement put an end to that supremacy and now all the occupied lands are within the range of Lebanon’s missiles.
The Iranian lawmaker invited Suleiman to visit Iran in the near future.
He also thanked the Lebanese president for welcoming the families of the four Iranian diplomats who were abducted in Lebanon in 1982