Report: Iranian weapons factories in Lebanon

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has established weapons factories in Lebanon, 50 metres below ground and fortified them against airstrikes, French magazine Intelligence Online reported yesterday.

One of the factories located in Hermel, in eastern Bekaa, manufactures Fateh-110 surface-to-surface missiles with a range of up to 300 kilometres and which is capable of carrying a 400 kilogramme warhead while the second factory is located on the Lebanese coast between the cities of Tyre and Sidon, the magazine added.

Earlier in March, an Iranian Revolutionary Guard officer said work in the arms factories had begun.

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“These factories are built more than 50 metres below the ground under layers and layers of fortification so that Israeli planes cannot hit them,” Iran’s Fars news agency reported the officer saying. He added that “the missiles are manufactured by different factories before they are assembled.”

“The weapons manufactured in the factories have been tested in the Syria war and proved their effectiveness,” he explained, noting that the “anti-tank missiles were able to destroy cars that were attacking Hezbollah fighters.

“Hezbollah is now making guns and machine guns and ground-based anti-air missile launchers,” he said.