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

BEIRUT (Reuters) -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 Shi’ite Muslim group to disarm.

The cabinet on Tuesday authorised 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.

The move came after the U.S. and anti-Hezbollah…