Mourners gather around the Hezbollah-draped coffins of people killed earlier this week in Israeli airstrikes on Baalbek, during their funeral in the Lebanese eastern city on March 5, 2026. AFP
Information Minister Paul Morcos said the country's cabinet had decided to "prevent any activity" that members of the Iran Guards "may carry out from Lebanese territory... and to have them detained by the competent judiciary to deport them".
He added that Iranians would now require a visa to enter Lebanon.
The Middle East war expanded to Lebanon on Monday, and Israel later said its troops had entered south Lebanese towns and villages.
On Wednesday, the head of the Lebanese Hezbollah group Naim Qassem said that Hezbollah will confront "Israeli-American aggression" and will not surrender despite the "imbalance in capabilities".
"We are facing aggression... our choice is to confront it until the ultimate sacrifice, and we will not surrender," the Hezbollah leader declared in his first speech since his party launched rockets towards Israel on Monday and Israel began a bombing campaign in Lebanon.
"What Israel did after the rocket salvo was not a response. It was an aggression that had been prepared in advance."
"Hezbollah and its Islamic resistance are responding to the Israeli-American aggression and this is a legitimate right... For us this is an existential defence.", Qassem added.
The Lebanese authorities said on Wednesday the Israeli campaign had killed at least 72 people and displaced more than 83,000.
The Lebanese government on Monday announced the "immediate ban" of Hezbollah's military activities and demanded the party surrender its weapons, months after it committed to a gradual disarming of the party, which the party has repeatedly rejected.
In his speech Wednesday, Qassem criticised the new decision by the Lebanese government, saying: "Instead of the Lebanese government moving to condemn the Israeli-American aggression and look for ways to confront it, it turned against the resistance to complete its error and align itself with Israeli demands."
"The topic of the resistance and the weapons of the resistance is not a subject of dispute for anyone or with anyone. It is a legitimate right. We are fighting in Lebanon in defence of our people, the future of our children and our country," he added.
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