Yaroun (also spelled Yarun; Arabic: يارون)[1] is a municipality located in the Caza of Bint Jbeil in the Nabatieh Governorate in Lebanon.

It has been suggested that Yaroun is the biblical town of Iron/Jiron, mentioned in Joshua 19:38 as a village belonging to the Tribe of Naphtali.

[7] On 31 December 1863, Louis Félicien de Saulcy, the French orientalist and archaeologist left Jish and arrived in Yaroun, and despite the heavy rain on that day, he examined the ruins of a temple, with a huge sarcophagi and sepulchral excavations cut into the rock, and a square well few meters deep, deducing that Yaroun was the Biblical town of Iaraoun, one of the cities of the Naphtali tribe mentioned in the Book of Joshua (xiv.

The village is situated on the edge of a plain, with vineyards and arable land; to the west rises a basalt-top called el Burj, dotted with cisterns, and said to be the site of an ancient castle.

[15] In the 1970s, a small group of immigrants from Yaroun, fleeing the Lebanese Civil War, settled in Bell, California.

[17] On 23 July, five civilians were killed in an Israeli strike in Yaroun; victims were aged between 6 months and 75 years old.

[19] In October 2024, Israel launched a ground incursion into the village and detonated the Imam Ali Ibn Abi Talib Mosque, an incident that was recorded and posted on various social media channels.