MP Walid Jumblat said on Tuesday that Lebanon's “dissociation policy” must not be mistaken with the term “neutrality” as he pinpointed the difference between the two.

“There is some confusion between dissociation and neutrality,” said Jumblat on his Twitter page.

Initial election results released early Monday in Honduras showed opposition candidate Salvador Nasralla, who is of Lebanese origin, leading President Juan Orlando Hernandez, after a tense evening that saw both men declare themselves the winner before official numbers were announced.

With 57 percent of the ballots counted, the leftist Nasralla had claimed 45.17 percent of votes compared to Hernandez's 40.21 percent, according to the country's Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE).

Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat on Saturday encouraged the Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to initiate talks with Iran to counter any looming war, and said that a settlement with Iran would help Lebanon implement its dissociation policy.

In order to find an effective way to distance Lebanon from the regional conflicts and end Hizbullah's involvement in neighboring wars, Prime Minister Saad Hariri's meeting with Hizbullah officials to that end are “not ruled out,” the pan-Arab al-Hayat daily reported on Saturday.

“Sources of al-Mustaqbal Movement said that Hariri has sensed a good response from President Michel Aoun and Speaker Nabih Berri's part on the need to find a practical mechanism for the country's dissociation policy, on Hizbullah's part, from the regional conflicts,” the daily said.

Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned in a new report that unauthorized weapons in the hands of Hizbullah and threatening rhetoric from the Lebanese group and Israeli officials "heightens risk of miscalculation and escalation into conflict."

The U.N. chief called on Hizbullah and Israel, who fought a war in 2006, "to exercise restraint at all times" and "refrain from potentially inflammatory comments."

Iran's Foreign Ministry on Friday took aim at Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman, describing him as "adventurous" and accusing him of "scandalous intervention in Lebanese domestic affairs."

"The mistakes by the adventurous Saudi crown prince, the latest of which is the scandalous intervention in Lebanese domestic affairs, have caused trouble even for their traditional allies," Iran's Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Ghasemi said, suggesting that MBS was behind Prime Minister Saad Hariri's surprising Nov. 4 resignation announcement, which the PM reversed on Wednesday.

Prominent satirical actor and playwright Ziad Itani has been arrested on charges of “collaborating with the Israeli enemy,” Lebanon's State Security agency confirmed on Friday evening.

In a statement, State Security said Itani was arrested in a “special preemptive counter-espionage operation” after “several months of surveillance, follow-up and investigations inside and outside Lebanon.”

President Michel Aoun tasked Defense Minister Yaacoub Sarraf to participate in the Riyadh conference of the Islamic Military Counter Terrorism Coalition (IMCTC) of defense ministers at the invitation of Saudi King Salman bin Abdul Aziz.

Prime Minister Saad Hariri stressed that his decision to put his resignation on hold paves way for political parties to realize that implementing the dissociation policy protects Lebanon from regional problems, Hariri's media office said in a statement on Friday.

“The option of delaying (the resignation) allows somewhere for all political parties to make sure that distancing (Lebanon) oneself from everything that is happening around us is the basic policy that protects Lebanon from any problems in the region,” said Hariri.

Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat denounced on Friday what he described as “Iranian dictates” assuring that the Lebanese are well aware of their own interests and able to address their own affairs.