A controversial electricity draft law will be on the cabinet’s agenda next week after the government once again failed to agree on how the allocation of $1.2 billion to raise electricity production by 700 megawatts would be made.

The dispute over the draft law has led to divisions in the ranks of the government, after ministers representing Free Patriotic Movement leader Michel Aoun threatened to resign if the cabinet failed to approve the proposal.

President Michel Suleiman said on Friday stability in Lebanon is guaranteed, noting that the Special Tribunal for Lebanon indictment might create some tension on the ground.

“The stability in the country is guaranteed, we have foreign assurances regarding this matter,” Suleiman’s visitors told al-Joumhouria.

Speaker Nabih Berri has appeased fears over the dangers that the political tension poses on the country’s security situation, saying no one has an interest in reaching a state of chaos.

“The political tension that the country is witnessing doesn’t necessarily pose a danger on the security situation because no one has an interest in any security deterioration which leads to chaos,” Berri told his visitors according to pan-Arab daily al-Hayat published Friday.

Prime Minister Najib Miqati has called for consolidating the nation against the repercussions of the upheaval in Syria.

During the Iftar of al-Makassed Islamic Foundation on Thursday, Miqati said: “Everyone reject bloodshed and support reforms.”

The March 14 forces leaderships will hold an extensive meeting next week as the Special Tribunal for Lebanon probing the assassination of ex-Premier Rafik Hariri published on Wednesday the indictment.

High-ranking sources told An Nahar newspaper on Thursday that the meeting will issue a “strict and critical” statement.

Al-Mustaqbal movement has urged supporters to gather at ex-Premier Rafik Hariri’s graveside in downtown Beirut after Friday prayers.

The movement’s sources told As Safir daily that al-Mustaqbal “has never said it was convinced about killer sects and killed confessions.”

The United States retained Iran and its ally Syria as well as Sudan and Cuba on a list of alleged state sponsors of terrorism Thursday, after blacklisting the countries the previous year.

In an annual report, the State Department said "Iran remained the most active state sponsor of terrorism in 2010," citing "financial, material and logistic support" for militant groups in the Middle East and Central Asia.

The staff of the U.S. Treasury Department, which is in charge of following up on the financial activities of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s family and entourage, believe that they are getting closer to unveiling a link between Assad’s financial interests and Premier Najib Miqati and his brother Taha, who is also a businessman.

According to a U.S. report to be published Friday by the Kuwaiti daily al-Rai, the set of sanctions recently imposed on Syriatel -- Syria’s largest mobile phone operator owned by Assad’s cousin Rami Makhlouf -- were supposed to be expanded to include either Miqati or his brother Taha for their role in establishing the Syrian firm and introducing the cellphone technology to the Syrian market more than a decade ago.

Canada's security service identified possible Hizbullah reprisals over Hariri murder indictments as a national security threat, said a report Thursday.

A classified document cited by the Montreal French-language daily La Presse, entitled "Special Tribunal for Lebanon: does Hizbullah have recourse for violence in 2011?" outlines the concerns of Canada's Integrated Threat Assessment Center.

Interior Minister Marwan Charbel on Thursday quoted the military expert probing the Antelias blast as saying that the explosion was caused by a Western-made defensive hand grenade.

A statement issued by the premiership following Thursday’s cabinet session said “the interior minister demonstrated the summary of a report prepared by the military expert tasked with probing the Antelias incident.”