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Number Seven Thousand Eight Hundred and Ninety Nine - 07 August 2025
Iran Daily - Number Seven Thousand Eight Hundred and Ninety Nine - 07 August 2025 - Page 2
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Hezbollah says will ignore disarmament plan ʻas if it did not existʼ

Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance group said on Wednesday that it would treat Beirut's decision a day earlier to disarm it "as if it did not exist", accusing the cabinet of committing a "grave sin." Amid US pressure, Prime Minister Nawaf Salam said the government "tasked the Lebanese army with setting an implementation plan to restrict weapons" to the army and other state forces "before the end of this year", AFP reported.
The plan is to be presented to the cabinet by the end of August for discussion and approval.
In its first response to the decision, Hezbollah said: "Prime Minister Nawaf Salam's government committed a grave sin by taking the decision to disarm Lebanon of its weapons to resist the Israeli enemy.
"This decision undermines Lebanon's sovereignty and gives Israel a free hand to tamper with its security, geography, politics and future existence... Therefore, we will treat this decision as if it does not exist."
Hezbollah said it views the decision as "the result of dictates from US envoy" Tom Barrack, referring to a proposal he submitted to authorities calling for the group's disarmament within a timetable.
The government said its decision came as part of the implementation of the US-brokered cease-fire agreement that ended the war between Hezbollah and Israel on November 27. The agreement stipulated that government authorities including the army and internal security forces should be the exclusive bearers of weapons in Lebanon.
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