Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has pledged that major victories await the Lebanese people, semi-official Fars news agency reported.

It quoted Ahmadinejad as telling Lebanon's newly-appointed ambassador Zein al-Moussawi that "the Lebanese people should expect major victories."

Fars also said that the Iranian president stressed Tehran's backing to Lebanon.

The ambassador, meanwhile, told Ahmadinejad that he will work hard to improve Lebanese-Iranian ties.