Hezbollah boycotts cabinet session over Iran ambassador expulsion: Lebanese official to AFP

Iranian Ambassador to Lebanon Mohammad Reza Raouf Sheibani in Damascus, Syria, June 14, 2013. (AFP/File)

• The two Shia parties have a combined four ministers

BEIRUT: Ministers from Hezbollah and its ally Amal boycotted Lebanon’s cabinet session on Thursday in protest over the government declaring the Iranian ambassador persona non grata, a Lebanese official told AFP.
The two Shia parties have a combined four ministers, with one independent Shia also represented in the cabinet present at the meeting, the official said, as the spat over the Iranian diplomat’s expulsion escalated.
Hezbollah is an armed movement backed by Iran, which also has political representation in both government and parliament.