Ahmad Behbahani

Ahmad Beladi Behbahani (Persian: احمد بلادی بهبهانی‎‎) is a refugee who claimed to be a former Iranian intelligence officer, responsible for organizing terrorism abroad. He is known for his claim in 2000 that the Iranian government planned and sanctioned the Lockerbie disaster, when Pan Am Flight 103 crashed on December 21, 1988, over the town of Lockerbie in Annandale, Scotland. He reportedly alleged that Iran carried out the act in response to the destruction of Iran Air Flight 655 on July 3, 1988. The claim was made while a refugee in Turkey. Behbahani claimed that he brought into Iran a group of Libyans who underwent 90 days of training to prepare them to carry out the bombing.