The Lebanese government on Aug. 5 authorized its army to draw up a plan to restrict weapons across the country to six official security agencies by year’s end, a move that would effectively dismantle Hezbollah, the Iran-backed Shiite Muslim terrorist group that operates independently of the state.
“The Cabinet decided today to task the Lebanese Army with developing a plan to contain all weapons before the end of the year, and to present it to the Cabinet before the end of the current month, and to continue discussions on the paper submitted by the American side on [Aug. 7],” Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam stated in an Aug. 5 social media post.
