U.S. offers $10 million reward, chance to relocate for information on Iran’s leaders: “Send us a tip”
The United States announced Friday it would offer up to $10 million, as well as the possibility of relocation, for information on the fate of ten senior leaders of the Islamic Republic.
The U.S. State Department’s Rewards for Justice program announced the reward for information on Iran’s new supreme leader on Friday. Mojtaba Khamenei and nine other “key leaders” of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
Khamenei, who made his first public statement Thursday, is “injured and likely disfigured,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said. said Friday. A missile strike killed Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and other senior Iranian officials when the war broke out.
Besides the Supreme Leader, the list includes Deputy Chief of Staff Ali Asghar Hejazi, Military Advisor Major General Yahya Rahim Safavi, Interior Minister Brigadier General. General Eskandar Momeni, Minister of Intelligence and Security Esmail Khatib and Ali Larijani, Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council.
“These individuals command and direct various elements of the IRGC, which plans, organizes and executes terrorism throughout the world,” the State Department said in a statement announcing the reward.
Four leaders on the list are identified only by their title, without any names. They are the Secretary of the Defense Council, the Advisor to the Supreme Leader, the Chief Military Officer of the Supreme Leader’s Office, and the Commander of the IRGC.
“Do you have information on these Iranian terrorist leaders? » asks the program in an article on social networks. “Send us a tip. This could qualify you for a reward and relocation.”
The State Department released two versions of the award posters – one in English and one in Farsi – indicating that the United States was making a direct appeal to Iranian citizens.
In January, the State Department offered a $15 million reward for information on Iranian oil shipments and a separate reward offering the same amount for information on the IRGC’s financial network.
On February 24, just days before the war began, the CIA offered assistance to potential informants in Iran, providing them with instructions on how to contact the U.S. intelligence agency.
