Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his visiting Syrian counterpart Bashar Assad have stressed support to Lebanese efforts to reach national understanding, Syria's state-run news agency, SANA, reported.

The two leaders "discussed the current regional conditions," SANA said Saturday, adding that they had "identical views" on the need to reach stability in Iraq.

SANA hailed the two nations' rejection of "foreign dictates" and stressed the need for a "timetable for a withdrawal of foreign forces from" Iraq.

The talks also focused "on the positive developments in Lebanon since the Doha accord," which ended the Lebanese political crisis, SANA said.

Ahmadinejad and Assad "stressed their support to the path towards Lebanese national entente," the agency added.

Assad's two-day visit to Iran was also to focus on economic ties between Tehran and Damascus that have resulted in over a dozen projects in Syria, worth $896 million, SANA said, adding that both governments are "seriously seeking to increase the size of joint investments to more than $3 billion over the next years."(Naharnet-AP)