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To: critical_mass who wrote (7623)	7/15/2006 5:04:38 PM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 220298

No one knows for sure how much money Hizballah still receives from Iran, although one Western diplomat in Beirut estimated the figure at between $20 million and $40 million a month. Hizballah officials won't disclose the sum, but they make no apologies for accepting Iranian financial assistance. "What are the gifts of the United States to the Shiites of the South and the Bekaa?" asks Nawaf Mussawi, head of Hizballah's international relations. Much of the Iranian funding maintains Hizballah's extensive social welfare network of schools, clinics, hospitals and charitable associations. Hizballah does nothing to hide its Iranian connections. The group was created in 1982 as a guerrilla outfit by an Iranian Revolutionary Guard contingent dispatched by Ayatollah Khomeini following Israel's invasion of Lebanon