The US State Department on 13 March offered a $10 million reward for information on Iran’s new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei and other Iranian officials.
Iranian Interior Minister Eskandar Momeni, Intelligence and Security Minister Esmail Khatib, and Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council Ali Larijani are also among the ten people on the list.
“These individuals command various elements of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (quir), which plans, organises, and executes terrorist attacks around the world,” the State Department said in a statement.
The joint United States-Israeli operation against Iran began on 28 February and resulted in the death of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and a significant number of other senior Iranian regime officials.
Iran’s military has attacked not only Israel or US military installations in the region with missiles and drones, but also many of its regional neighbours, which Tehran considers allies of the United States.
On 8 March, Iran’s state media reported that Mojtaba Khamenei, son of the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, had been appointed the country’s new supreme leader.