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Source: http://www.menewsline.com/stories/2002/august/08_08_2.html
Iran Establishes Rocket Training Centers in Lebanon
(Middle East Newsline) - As part of a $150 million program to bolster its proxy presence in the region through such groups as Hizballah and Palestinian insurgency movements, Iran has agreed to finance training bases in Lebanon to train insurgents aligned with Teheran to fire short-range missiles. Iran has accelerated shipments of Fajr-5 short-range rockets and SA-7 anti-aircraft missiles to these groups, and units of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, commanded by Gen. Ali Reza Tamzar, are supervising their training at a camp in Khuraj near the Syrian border.