Dr Swire’s book, The Lockerbie Bombing: A Father’s Search for Justice, has been adapted into a five-part series starring Colin Firth in the main role, which first aired on Sky on Thursday.
Speaking to the BBC’s Breakfast programme on Saturday morning, Dr Swire said he and other bereaved families believe the Lockerbie bombing was an act of retaliation from Iran after their own Iran Air Airbus was shot down by US missile cruiser USS Vincennes in July 1988 – killing 290 people.
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Dr Swire told the programme: “Five months later, Lockerbie happened.
“The facts seem to point towards Iran’s having engaged with terrorist groups, the chief one being the PFLP-GC (Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command), didn’t worry about what that means, and get those people to act as surrogates, to get revenge.”
Speaking about the new series, Dr Swire added: “I can only be astonished by the accuracy and the telling way in which all these people working together have produced so accurate a copy of what we’ve tried to do in our small way at one end of the scale, and where now we hope at the other end of the scale that a great country like America may come to look afresh at what happened in light of what the evidence actually shows.”
A Libyan suspect of the Lockerbie bombing, Abu Agila Masud, who is alleged to have helped make the bomb, is to go on trial in the US in May this year.