Hezbollah rejects Lebanon’s step to restrict weapons as a “dangerous sin”

Hezbollah, the Lebanese Shiite and Political Movement, says it will ignore a decision from the government of Lebanon on the army’s mission to establish a state monopoly on weapon.

“We will deal with this decision as if it were not present,” Hezbollah said in a statement on Wednesday.

Comments come despite the international pressure on the group to disarm it.

The Iranian -backed group has been deteriorated significantly in the last year’s war with Israel, but so far, it refused to abandon its arsenal, despite calls from American and home competitors.

Hezbollah also said that the Lebanese cabinet decision to try to limit the supplies of weapons and production in the state forces was the result of the American “Diktats”.

He added that he was open to dialogue and discussions on the “national security strategy”, but not “in the context of the aggression.”

On Tuesday, the Council of Ministers asked Lebanon from the army to submit a plan that will witness all weapons under state control by the end of the year.

Prime Minister Nour Salam said in a press conference after the Council of Ministers for a period of six hours, that the plan must be presented to the Council of Ministers by the end of this month for discussion and approval.

In June, US officials presented a road map for the Lebanese authorities that suggested the complete disarmament of Hezbollah in exchange for stopping Israel and withdrawing the forces from five locations in southern Lebanon, which were occupied despite the ceasefire deal in November.

The group’s leader, Naymis Qassem, said in a televised speech during the cabinet meeting, that Hezbollah will not discuss the “issue of weapons” while the Israeli attacks continue, accusing Israel of violating the conditions of the ceasefire. Israel says its attacks are to prevent Hezbollah from re -assembling sexual intercourse and renewal.

Despite its weak situation, Hezbollah still has great support among the Shiite Muslim population in Lebanon, and discussions about the risk of disarming in the country’s high tensions, as many still remember the civil war 1975-1990.