False death registration and fake identities: how IRGC members infiltrate Lebanon | Report

The Trump administration is investigating suspicions that members of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) have been obtaining Lebanese documents based on the real identities of citizens, including the deceased. American sources reported to Al-Arabiya that authorities are verifying the use of these documents by Iranians at Beirut airport and land border crossings.

"The Trump administration has identified movement of IRGC members to and from Lebanon," an American source revealed.

According to the source, American authorities are checking the passage of Iranians using Lebanese documents at Beirut airport and land border crossings. The source claimed that real identities of Lebanese citizens are being used to issue documents to IRGC members, noting that the Americans have information regarding the use of documents belonging to deceased Lebanese citizens to register Iranian activists under local identities.

According to the same source, loopholes were discovered in the registration of deaths among the population associated with Hezbollah, which allegedly allowed for the use of the deceased's identities for the entry of Iranians into the country. The implication is that IRGC members did not just use forged documents, but allegedly received official documents based on existing Lebanese identities.

The American sources also raised suspicions of involvement by elements within the Lebanese security apparatus.

"There is a suspicion that members of the Lebanese security apparatus were involved in issuing passports to Iranian activists," one of the sources said.

It is also being investigated whether security personnel granted Hezbollah leniencies at the Beirut international airport and the seaport. Another American intelligence source told Al-Arabiya that the United States has "reservations regarding elements in the Lebanese General Security apparatus," though they did not specify which officials were targeted or the extent of the involvement.

The report points to a mechanism that allowed IRGC members to move between Iran and Lebanon under Lebanese identities, thereby concealing their citizenship and organizational affiliation at border control.

However, these claims are based on anonymous American sources and have not yet been backed by public evidence. Al-Arabiya did not report how many Iranians allegedly received Lebanese documents, how long the mechanism had been operating, or the identities of the security personnel involved. To date, no official response has been published by the Lebanese government, the country's security apparatus, Hezbollah, or Iran.