The State Department announced Friday that Iranian citizens can earn up to $10 million and the ability to move to America if they inform on the whereabouts of 10 senior Islamic Republic leaders.
People with knowledge of the tyrants’ locations can share that information via a Tor browser tip line or the secure Signal messaging app, the department said.
The 10 wanted men are described as “key leaders” of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, which the US government labels a terrorist group.
Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei and national security adviser Ali Larijani are the best-known figures on the list.
Lesser-known targets include Interior Minister Eskandar Momeni and Intelligence Minister Esmail Khatib.
Reflecting the recent airstrike-driven turnover in the theocracy’s upper echelons, four office-holders are described only by job title — including secretary of the defense council and military office chief — and are not named or pictured.
Notably, the call to action doesn’t list all of Iran’s political leadership as targets for arrest or elimination.
Among those omitted are the three men who collectively led Iran after Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s assassination on Feb. 28: President Masoud Pezeshkian, Chief Justice Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Eje’i and Ayatollah Alireza Arafi.
The reward offer was made after many of the country’s leaders marched through the streets of Tehran on Friday as part of an annual pro-Palestinian demonstration. Among those who took part were Larijani, Pezeshkian and Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi — who also escaped proscription.
The US military famously used playing cards in 2003 to identify wanted Iraqi officials following George W. Bush’s decision to invade and topple dictator Saddam Hussein.
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