it should have little or no effect on lighting, the normal hot and neutral wires are close enough to ground that lightning won't act much differently, and the iron pipe is already at ground potential. i can't see any mechanism in this case that would change the risk of lightning, though it may provide one more way for a very, very nearby strike to get into the system, such a strike would probably get in through the hot and neutral any way.
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