SPND is still hooked on fentanyl
Like your dad’s favourite dead rockstars and the best actor in The Wire , it seems that the Iranian government just can’t quit its addiction to fentanyl. Indeed, we’ve just stumbled across a piece of information indicating that the weird relationship between Iran’s military‑industrial complex and the world of illicit drug production could be ramping up even further. Remember Iranian state-owned fentanyl manufacturer Tofigh Daru Research and Engineering Company , which we wrote about in a previous post? In that post, we aired our suspicions that Tofigh Daru is mass-producing fentanyl for the purposes of supplying the global black market for the drug. It turns out that in December 2023, Tofigh Daru was paid an official visit by an Iranian government official named Javad Mashayekh ( جواد مشایخ ). To those with a little bit of knowledge about the murky world of Iranian covert operations, Mashayekh’s presence at Tofigh Daru is what a poker player might call a Big Fucking Tell. Mas