Is Iran threatening another Lockerbie?
Jan 6, 2020 20:40:59 GMT -5
Post by Berean on Jan 6, 2020 20:40:59 GMT -5
Is Iran threatening another Lockerbie? President Rouhani makes sinister veiled reference to 1988 Pan Am bombing that killed 270 people as incredible photos show Qassem Soleimani's funeral from space
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani warned America should 'never threaten Iran' in response to Donald Trump
Rouhani the US should 'remember the number 290' in reference to a downed Iranian passenger jet in 1988
Iran Air flight 655 was show down by a US Navy warship killing 290 people, just six months before Lockerbie
Libya was blamed for bombing over Scotland but many in Western intelligence believe order came from Iran
By CHRIS DYER FOR MAILONLINE and REUTERS
PUBLISHED: 13:06 EST, 6 January 2020 | UPDATED: 18:00 EST, 6 January 2020
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani was today accused of threatening America with another Lockerbie after he tweeted a veiled reference to the 1988 bombing that killed 270 people.
Rouhani tweeted that America should 'never threaten Iran' after warning the US should 'remember the number 290' in reference to an incident when the US Navy accidentally shot down an Iranian passenger jet in the Persian Gulf in July 1988, killing 290.
Some Middle East experts have taken this as a veiled reference to the Lockerbie terrorist attack, which saw a bomb destroy Pan Am flight 103 over Scotland in December 1988 killing 270 - months after the downing of Iranian flight 655.
Libya has always been blamed for the Lockerbie bombing, and one of their intelligence agents was jailed in Scotland for the terror attack. But Western spies believe Tehran played a role in the attack and executed it in revenge for the downing of the Iranian passenger jet - now Rouhani's sinister return to the episode and threatening of consequences has fuelled those suspicions.
Rouhani was responding to a tweet from Donald Trump in which the president threatened to strike 52 sites in Iran if Tehran retaliated against Washington following the assassination of Major-General Qassem Soleimani in a drone strike near Baghdad airport on Friday.
It comes as incredible pictures from space showed crowds of up to a million Iranians on the streets of the capital, Tehran, for Soleimani's funeral today.
Full story with pictures and video at link
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani warned America should 'never threaten Iran' in response to Donald Trump
Rouhani the US should 'remember the number 290' in reference to a downed Iranian passenger jet in 1988
Iran Air flight 655 was show down by a US Navy warship killing 290 people, just six months before Lockerbie
Libya was blamed for bombing over Scotland but many in Western intelligence believe order came from Iran
By CHRIS DYER FOR MAILONLINE and REUTERS
PUBLISHED: 13:06 EST, 6 January 2020 | UPDATED: 18:00 EST, 6 January 2020
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani was today accused of threatening America with another Lockerbie after he tweeted a veiled reference to the 1988 bombing that killed 270 people.
Rouhani tweeted that America should 'never threaten Iran' after warning the US should 'remember the number 290' in reference to an incident when the US Navy accidentally shot down an Iranian passenger jet in the Persian Gulf in July 1988, killing 290.
Some Middle East experts have taken this as a veiled reference to the Lockerbie terrorist attack, which saw a bomb destroy Pan Am flight 103 over Scotland in December 1988 killing 270 - months after the downing of Iranian flight 655.
Libya has always been blamed for the Lockerbie bombing, and one of their intelligence agents was jailed in Scotland for the terror attack. But Western spies believe Tehran played a role in the attack and executed it in revenge for the downing of the Iranian passenger jet - now Rouhani's sinister return to the episode and threatening of consequences has fuelled those suspicions.
Rouhani was responding to a tweet from Donald Trump in which the president threatened to strike 52 sites in Iran if Tehran retaliated against Washington following the assassination of Major-General Qassem Soleimani in a drone strike near Baghdad airport on Friday.
It comes as incredible pictures from space showed crowds of up to a million Iranians on the streets of the capital, Tehran, for Soleimani's funeral today.
Full story with pictures and video at link