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Miles Johnson
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Investigative reporter at the Financial Times. Author of CHASING SHADOWS. Podcast: HOT MONEY: THE NEW NARCOS.
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8) In May this year the US State Department issued fresh sanctions against the SPND, warning that it was working on “dual-use research and development activities applicable to nuclear weapons and nuclear weapons delivery systems”, and attempting to procure technology from abroad.
August 5, 2025 at 9:12 AM
5) Shortly before the visit, the delegation’s lead wrote to a Russian supplier to enquire about buying tritium, strontium-90, and nickel-63 - radioactive isotopes with civilian uses, but which are tightly controlled and monitored under non-proliferation rules.
August 5, 2025 at 9:12 AM
3) Most of the delegation travelled on Iranian diplomatic service passports, some freshly issued and with sequential numbers. One was the ex-CEO of a US sanctioned nuclear procurement front company. Another was an Iranian military counter intelligence officer.
August 5, 2025 at 9:12 AM
2) The FT has found that this delegation included individuals with links to the SPND, an Iranian military-scientific unit described by the US as “the direct successor organisation to Iran’s pre-2004 nuclear weapons programme”.
August 5, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Thank you to The Sunday Long Read for featuring my
FT Weekend Magazine story “The fugitive prince” in their excellent weekly email round up:
February 3, 2025 at 2:03 PM
My story in the FT Weekend Magazine today - The Fugitive Prince: how a man with a claim to a royal title and a vast fortune made a deal with a notorious businessman that cost him more than he could have imagined.
www.ft.com/content/51f8...
January 18, 2025 at 7:33 AM