OTV aired on Thursday evening the fake identity cards used by the suicide attackers behind the blasts in Beirut's Bir Hassan neighborhood as security forces embarked on searching the hotel where they stayed on their last night.

"Security forces are trying to examine the pictures on the IDs to determine whether they are real or fake,” OTV said.

President Michel Suleiman stated on Thursday that there is no independence in the country when armed groups get involved in a neighboring country's war.

“There is no independence when some Lebanese factions disregard national consensus, risk Lebanon's stability and get involved in the fighting in a neighboring country's war,” Suleiman said in a speech he gave on the eve of Independence Day.

General Security chief Abbas Ibrahim stated on Thursday that Lebanon is going through one of the “toughest' stages in its modern history, warning of the “great danger” that persists in the northern city of Tripoli.

"Maybe this is one of the most complicated phases on all levels,” Ibrahim said in a statement he gave to the Hizbullah-affiliated al-Ahd website.

Hizbullah stated on Thursday that those behind the deadly attack in the Beirut neighborhood of Bir Hassan will not succeed in changing adopted political policies, calling also for a “serious” national dialogue.

"Those that are experts in these barbarous acts will not succeed in changing political policies adopted locally and regionally,” MP Hassan Fadlallah stated after Loyalty to Resistance bloc's meeting.

Saudi Arabia's embassy in Beirut has called on citizens to leave Lebanon because of the dangerous situation, its ambassador said Thursday, after some media linked the kingdom to deadly blasts.

"The Saudi embassy sent a text message to (Saudi) citizens in Lebanon advising them to leave, considering the danger of the situation and out of concern for their safety," the ambassador Ali Awadh Asiri, told AFP.

Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Miqati said on Thursday that Lebanese authorities have beefed up security near foreign diplomatic missions, two days after suicide bombers struck the Iranian embassy.

In remarks to the Turkish state-run Anadolu news agency, Miqati said: “We have taken all measures to protect diplomatic missions in Lebanon.”

Three Internal Security Forces members were injured on Thursday when gunmen opened fire on them in the northern district of Zgharta and in the city of Tripoli as police clamped down on construction violators.

The state-run National News Agency said that two policemen were injured after coming under fire while removing illegal buildings in the area of al-Shalfe in Zgharta.

President Michel Suleiman offered on Thursday his condolences at the Iranian embassy over the victims of the twin suicide bombings that targeted the mission a few days earlier.

A myriad of officials, politicians and diplomats have been converging on the mission in the past two days.

The Lebanese Army Intelligence was on Thursday analyzing the tapes of security cameras that the Iranian embassy had handed it over after the twin suicide bombings that targeted the mission in Beirut's southern suburbs.

The probe was ongoing under the supervision of the military prosecutor Judge Saqr Saqr.

Caretaker Interior Minister Marwan Charbel has warned that the trial of the suspects in ex-Premier Rafik Hariri's 2005 assassination by the Special Tribunal for Lebanon early next year could make Lebanon's crisis worse.

In remarks to An Nahar daily during his official visit to Paris, Charbel said: “When trials start, there will be evidence that could affect the situation in Syria and could make the situation in Lebanon worse.”