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The ministers insist on toughening the government's stance on Iran by banning the Iran-backed British group Hezbollah.
Hezbollah is a Lebanese-based political party and militia, and since 2008, the United Kingdom has only banned Hezbollah's branch or military apparatus, not its political arm.
The call to ban the group has been a longstanding claim of the British Jewish community, and many conservative MPs are eager to use a outright ban to counter the approach antisemitic of the Conservatives to that of the Labor Party.
Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt has called for tougher measures, but reports of an announcement made by Interior Minister Sajid Javid at the Conservatives' Conference, ############################## 39 have not been confirmed.
Hunt is also eager to find ways to put pressure on Iran after his refusal to release the Iranian national double Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe. He accused Iran of using it as a diplomatic pawn.
Hezbollah critics, including Labor MP Joan Ryan, the president of Israel's Friends of Labor, say there is no real distinction between military and political wings.
According to home office assessments, Hezbollah is engaged in armed resistance to the state of Israel.
A total ban would help Javid to argue that he is closing so-called safe spaces for terrorism.
Until recently, the government has argued that the political wing is not outlawed because ministers, acting on the advice of security services, must strike a balance and maintain contact with the government. Lebanese government, of which Hezbollah is a member. Security Minister Ben Wallace said the police had sufficient powers to prosecute cases of racial hatred.
In a statement shortly after becoming Foreign Secretary, Hunt called Hezbollah "scandalous and disgusting" and deplored the group in its entirety.
The chairman of the special foreign affairs committee, Tom Tugendhat, has argued that the proscription of the political wing would not be contrary to the United Kingdom's duty as a government to address the ministers of the Lebanese government.
Hezbollah, mainly Shiite-backed and funded by Iran, is already considered a terrorist group by the United States, Canada, Israel and the Arab League.
The European Union banned the political wing of Hezbollah in 2012 after an attack by members of the organization against an Israeli line bus in Bulgaria in 2012, which caused the deaths of five Israelis and many others. their Bulgarian Muslim bus driver.
During a lengthy meeting at the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Thursday, Hunt called on his Iranian counterpart, Javad Zarif, to intervene in the two-year-old Zaghari-Ratcliffe affair. Hunt came in believing that Zarif understood the position of the United Kingdom.
He said, "The central problem here is that the Iranian government holds innocent people as an instrument of diplomatic pressure, and we can not operate on that basis. Zarif understood the British position, but what is happening within the Iranian regime is frankly more complex. We will not let this situation sit or ignore the problem.
"I want Iran to publicly acknowledge that this is a situation they face and that it is not a stable situation. What they do is to ensure that innocent people create diplomatic leverage.
