The Lockerbie bombing was ordered by Iran and carried out by a Syrian-based terror group, an Iranian defector has claimed. Britain’s worst terror atrocity, in which 270 people died when Pan Am Flight 103 exploded above the Scottish town in December 1988, has always been blamed on Libya. But a former Iranian intelligence agent – now living under a witness protection scheme in Germany – has said publicly for the first time that the attack was ordered by Iran in revenge for the accidental downing of an Iranian commercial jet by the US Navy in 1988. It is also claimed that the bomb was placed on the doomed flight at Heathrow, rather than in Malta as had been thought.
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Ayatollah Khomeini wanted revenge for U.S. strike on Iranian passenger jet
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He wanted 'everything exactly the same, minimum 290 people dead'
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Claims he hired Syrian-based Palestinian terror group to bomb Pan Am 103
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Also claimed the Lockerbie bomb was planted at Heathrow, not Malta
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