●Hussein al-Musawi breaks from Amal and founds Islamic Amal

In June 1982, in protest at Nabih Berri's joining the National Salvation Committee alongside Bachir Gemayel and his acceptance of American mediation, the movement's deputy leader and spokesman Hussein al-Musawi broke away, accused Berri of treason, and founded "Islamic Amal" in Baalbek with the support of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard; its fighters numbered about a thousand, and it later merged into Hezbollah.