Hezbollah says Lebanon cabinet decision to limit arms to state is ‘grave sin’

BEIRUT: Hezbollah said on Wednesday the Lebanese government was committing a “grave sin” by tasking the army with establishing a state monopoly on arms, sharpening a national divide over calls for the Shiite Muslim group to disarm. The cabinet on Tuesday authorized the Lebanese army to draw up a plan to confine arms across the country to six official security forces by year’s end — a major challenge to the Iran-backed Hezbollah.

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