Lebanon's Hezbollah terror group said on Wednesday it was time for politicians to make concessions to agree a new government that must rescue the country from financial crisis.
Lebanon's financial meltdown is posing the most serious threat to stability since the 1975-1990 civil war, but politicians have been unable to form a government for months.
"Everyone must know the country has run out of time," Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, leader of the armed, Iran-backed Hezbollah, said in a televised speech. He said there were "serious, collective efforts" in recent days to ease a political standoff that has obstructed cabinet talks for months.