The US Offers $10m Reward For Mojtaba Khamenei and other senior Iranian military and intelligence officials, according to a listing on the US State Department website. The reward targets 10 officials associated with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
The IRGC, created after Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution, answers to the supreme leader and has a core mandate to protect Iran’s clerical establishment.
The State Department listing includes Iran’s new Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, and seeks information on several other top figures named in the source text.
Those named include Iran’s security chief Ali Larijani, Intelligence Minister Esmail Khatib, Interior Minister Eskandar Momeni, and two officials in Khamenei’s office.
The reward website also lists four additional officials, including the IRGC commander and the secretary of the defence council, but the source text says it does not provide their names or photos.
Ali Larijani appeared on Friday in videos verified by Reuters, alongside President Masoud Pezeshkian and Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi at a rally in Tehran, the source text says.
The appearance came despite an assertion by US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth that Iran’s leadership was “cowering” underground.
In its listing, the State Department said the individuals “command and direct” elements of the IRGC, which it described as planning, organising, and executing terrorism globally.
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The United States has designated the IRGC as a foreign terrorist organisation and has accused it of involvement in attacks that killed US citizens, according to the source text. Washington has also accused Iran of orchestrating assassination plots against President Donald Trump and other US officials in retaliation for the killing of Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani in 2020.
Iran denies sponsoring terrorism. Iranian officials routinely reject US allegations as politically motivated and say Washington uses such claims to justify pressure campaigns or sanctions, according to the source text.
