Iran said on Saturday that it would be up to the Lebanese government and Hezbollah to decide on whether to accept a UN Security Council resolution aimed at defusing the current Middle East crisis, the official IRNA news agency reported.

Consensus of various groups inside Lebanon on the newly-passed resolution will be required and once the resolution is accepted, measures will be taken toward ceasefire, said Alaeddin Boroujerdi, chairman of the Iranian parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Commission.

The UN Security Council on Friday unanimously adopted a resolution that calls for Israel's withdrawal and authorizes an increase of the existing UN force in Lebanon to 15,000 troops to help Lebanese troops take control of south Lebanon as Israel withdraws.

Boroujerdi said that though the resolution reflected Israel's political failure, it was still in the interests of Israel.

"In practice, the United States had to accept many of requests of the Lebanese government and withdraw from its primary position," he said.

The resolution was passed after France and the United States, cosponsors of the draft, came up with a compromise final version after days of hard wrangling.

The resolution has left out some key demands from both Israel and Lebanon in efforts to bring out a workable arrangement to the fighting between Israel and Lebanese Hezbollah guerrillas that has killed over 1,000 people, destroyed Lebanon's infrastructure and inflamed tensions across the Middle East.

Boroujerdi said that the recognition of Hezbollah's entity as a military and political reality was a positive point of the resolution.

"Hezbollah has been called on to stop its military operations. On the other hand, Israel has also been called on to end its attacks on Lebanon, which is quite significant from legal point of view and is considered, per se, as a kind of admittance of Hezbollah's existence," he said.

However, there were also "negative points" in the resolution, whose "content and legal issues have been worded partially and in the interests of Israel," he said.

He said that the resolution's clause on ceasefire contained "mischief" that would not prevent Israel's further "abuse."

On ceasefire, the resolution calls for a "full cessation of hostilities based upon, in particular, the immediate cessation by Hezbollah of all attacks and the immediate cessation by Israel of all offensive military operations."

"From legal point of view, the phrase means that Israel can proceed with its attacks to defend itself. Such phrases prepare the grounds for the Zionist regime's abuse," Boroujerdi said.