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My story in the @FTMag 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.
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New: Russia agreed to supply Iran with 90 launchers for the advanced guided missiles widely used by its forces in Ukraine, a sign of Moscow’s military support for Tehran despite the demands of its own sputtering war effort.
with @MilesMJohnson:
ft.com/content/19ec77…
with @MilesMJohnson:
ft.com/content/19ec77…
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Huge FT scoop which confirms essence of @anneapplebaum prescient book Autocracy Inc and challenge to American power; Russia secretly helping Iran develop supersonic cruise missiles ft.com/content/6cf367… via @FT
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Major @FT investigation by @maxseddon, @MilesMJohnson, and @charles_clover: Moscow has been helping Iran acquire the engineering know-how to design and improve its own ramjet-powered supersonic cruise missiles.
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Our Russia-Iran missile scoop on tomorrow’s front page
Just published: front page of the Financial Times, international edition, Wednesday September 2 ft.trib.al/HD3BZpY
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FT Exclusive: The multiyear covert programme, one of the most significant known transfers of military technology from Moscow to Tehran, is intended to develop a new class of weapon capable of threatening US aircraft carriers and Middle East warships. ft.trib.al/WDpq2bo
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🔴SCOOP🔴: Russia has been secretly helping Iran develop advanced supersonic cruise missiles. The @FT found a covert programme, codenamed C430L, involving some of Russia’s top missile engineers, and a years-long effort to help Tehran master a technology it has wanted for decades
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This Saturday I will be taking about dirty money in the City at the FT Weekend Festival in London with the fantastic Oliver Bullough and Katie Martin. We are on at 1pm on the FT Future stage. Come along!
ukftweekendfestival.live.ft.com/agenda/session…
ukftweekendfestival.live.ft.com/agenda/session…
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NEW: Nigel Farage’s long-term aide George Cottrell had a secret Polymarket account that received nearly $20mn in cryptocurrency to place bets on Donald Trump winning the US election, at a time when he was providing gifts and benefits to the Reform UK leader. w/ @MilesMJohnson
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Matt has masterminded so many of the pieces I am most proud of. He has an amazing ability to see the hidden potential in weird ideas, and to inspire his writers to think bigger and push harder until the story becomes the best it can be. 🫡
8/ Find your people. Writer-wise, I made a lot of ride or dies at the FT but there are a couple of collaborators who stand out, including my brother and sister in gonzo narrative @jemimajoanna & @MilesMJohnson
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Why do the British police say they have “no evidence” the Starmer arson attacks were a “state threat” when there is overwhelming evidence that they were run by a handler based in Russia? The answer is here:
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Its a subtle but important distinction. As we reported, the handler was based in Russia and aligned with pro-Kremlin networks encouraging sabotage activity abroad. We also reported that these are decentralised networks, often with murky and indirect links to the Russian state.
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🚨 New: Another man appears to have operated inside the fake Russian far-right network behind the Starmer arson attacks.
He has not been publicly identified or charged by UK police, raising new questions over a much wider Russia-originated agitation campaign in London last year.
He has not been publicly identified or charged by UK police, raising new questions over a much wider Russia-originated agitation campaign in London last year.
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FT Exclusive: A Russian online sabotage network was behind a series of arson attacks on Sir Keir Starmer’s family home and other targets linked to the UK prime minister, an FT investigation has found. ft.trib.al/ytkpQUp
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🚨 New @FT scoop: leaked records reveal how Iran’s Revolutionary Guards used a UAE procurement network to secretly ship Chinese satellite technology tied to its drone programme — months before Tehran launched thousands of drones and missiles at the Emirates.
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FT analysis of shipping data and satellite imagery found the Iranian vessel involved in the final leg of the delivery appeared to spoof its location - broadcasting false navigational data in an apparent effort to disguise the shipment’s route into Iran
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🚨The US State Department last night imposed sanctions on The Earth Eye, a Chinese company which the @FT last month revealed had secretly sold a high resolution satellite to Iran. The IRGC used this satellite to target US military bases around the Middle East with great accuracy.
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Link to our story here: ft.com/content/1fddd2…
And a link to the State Dept release here: state.gov/releases/offic…
And a link to the State Dept release here: state.gov/releases/offic…
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@FT story on new US sanctions here:
ft.com/content/f07742…
US imposes sanctions on Chinese companies for allegedly helping Iran
ft.com/content/f07742…
US imposes sanctions on Chinese companies for allegedly helping Iran
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