The Iranian embassy in Lebanon on Tuesday lamented that “Lebanon’s enemies” have prevented Tehran from assisting the Lebanese people amid the current crisis.

“Iran had several times proposed to offer aid to the brotherly Lebanese people to help them overcome their crisis, but Lebanon’s enemies obstructed and exerted pressure to prevent things from reaching happy endings under frail excuses and alibis,” the embassy said in a tweet.

Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea has said that the country’s new president must “act 180 degrees contrary to what we witnessed over the past six years, especially as to returning the strategic decision to the state.”

“The new president must also fight corruption fiercely, not through statements, and must not let his people and those around him commit major corruption with every sunrise,” Geagea added, in an interview with Saudi newspaper Okaz.

Twelve lawmakers from the Free Patriotic Movement-led Strong Lebanon bloc on Tuesday submitted a draft law aimed at “forming a parliamentary panel of inquiry into the offenses committed by Central Bank Governor Riad Salameh.”

“The Lebanese judiciary has refrained from prosecuting him despite the lawsuits filed against him in several foreign nations, and in the file of financial transfers to abroad,” the bloc said.

The joint parliamentary committees convened Tuesday to resume discussing the capital control draft law.

"We have specifically modified the needed exemptions in the capital control," Bou Saab said after the meeting.

Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati on Tuesday held talks with Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri in Ain el-Tineh.

Speaking to LBCI television after the meeting, the premier said he briefed the Speaker on his “positive” meetings in Saudi Arabia on the sidelines of the Arab-Chinese summit.

There will be no dialogue on Thursday, the Berri-owned NBN TV said Tuesday.

The parliamentary session will be "exclusively for electing a president", the media outlet said, as the Lebanese Forces and the Free Patriotic Movement refused to participate in a dialogue that might have replaced the presidential election session.

The Lebanese Forces said Tuesday that they will not participate in a parliamentary dialogue that Speaker Nabih Berri might call for.

Berri had announced last week that he would turn Thursday’s presidential election session into a parliamentary dialogue if the blocs agree to such a move.

The Joint Parliamentary Committees have agreed to “put the capital control law aside after approving it pending the adoption of the rest of the laws that are related to the recovery plan,” Deputy Speaker Elias Bou Saab announced on Monday.

“We passed Article 4 of the capital control law and the discussions are now limited to exemptions,” Bou Saad said after a parliamentary committees session.

TotalEnergies CEO Patrick Pouyanné said Monday that the French energy giant has mobilized the teams in charge of drilling operations in Lebanon's Block 9, as he met with caretaker Energy Minister Walid Fayyad.

TotalEnergies said that it has launched a call for tenders to select a vendor for a new drilling rig in the first quarter of 2023.

Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati met Monday with Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi over a controversial cabinet session that had infuriated the Free Patriotic Movement.

The caretaker cabinet had convened last Monday to discuss "urgent" matters in a session boycotted by the FPM. FPM chief Jebran Bassil later blasted Hezbollah, Mikati and other parties over the session.