Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri said “things are positive,” after Cabinet on Friday welcomed the Lebanese Army’s plan for the disarmament of Hezbollah and all armed groups in the country.

Hezbollah official Mahmoud Qmati told Reuters on Saturday that Hezbollah considers Friday's cabinet session on the Lebanese Army's plan to establish a state monopoly on arms "an opportunity to return to wisdom and reason, preventing the country from slipping into the unknown."

Information Minister Paul Morcos said after Friday's meeting that the army “will start implementing the plan, but according to the available resources — there are limited material and human logistical resources” and that the military “has the right of operational discretion.”

The government’s statement on the Lebanese Army’s weapons monopolization plan reflected “the political settlement that was reached prior to the session between President Joseph Aoun and PM Nawaf Salam on one side and the Amal-Hezbollah duo on the other,” the pro-Hezbollah al-Akhbar newspaper reported on Saturday.

Iran has been trying in recent weeks to transfer funds to Hezbollah through Iraq and Syria, with some attempts failing and others succeeding, a media report said.

Al-Sharq Al-Awsat newspaper said Friday that Syrian and Lebanese security authorities have recently detected increased Iranian attempts to pump aid to Hezbollah, adding that some aid has likely been successfully delivered to the group with the help of smuggling networks while other shipments were foiled.

The plan that the army will present in today's cabinet session does not include a timetable, LBCI reported Friday.

"The army cannot commit to a fixed deadline as the implementation of the plan depends on logistics, operational resources, and the situation on the ground," the TV channel said, adding that its sources have refuted a report (published Wednesday in ad-Diyar) claiming that Hezbollah's disarmament would start from Beirut.

The era of “the war decision outside state control” has ended, Lebanese sources said on Friday, shortly before a key cabinet session on arms monopolization.

“The army’s plan is the start of the arms monopolization course and there will be a continuous revision for improving it,” the sources told Al-Arabiya television.

The Lebanese Army’s weapons monopolization plan is not complete and it resembles “half a plan,” diplomatic sources told MTV.

“It will be discussed in today’s cabinet session and the debate will be adjourned to a later date to allow for further scrutiny of its clauses and terms in a profound manner,” the sources said.

Lebanon’s leaders are running out of time to disarm Hezbollah before they risk losing U.S. and Gulf Arab financial support, and even a renewed Israeli military campaign, the New York Times quoted U.S. officials as saying, ahead of a key cabinet meeting in Beirut on Friday.

The warning comes at what U.S. officials call a critical moment in Lebanon’s history, as the country’s cabinet considers a plan to force Hezbollah to surrender its weapons.

President Joseph Aoun, Speaker Nabih Berri and PM Nawaf Salam have agreed that there should be “flexible discussions” in the key cabinet session that will tackle the army’s weapons monopoly plan on Friday, informed sources said.

“One of the Shiite Duo’s ministers will deliver remarks during the session reminding of the need to reverse the previous decisions. If the Duo succeeds in its endeavor, it won’t withdraw from the session,” the sources told Al-Jadeed TV.

The government is set to discuss on Friday an army plan to disarm Hezbollah, which the Iran-backed group opposes, accusing the cabinet of playing into the hands of Israel and the United States.

In August, under heavy U.S. pressure and fearing Israel would intensify its strikes, the government ordered the army to draw up a plan for disarming Hezbollah by the end of the year.