Source: Washington Examiner · 2026-08-26 · Original article ↗

US offers up to $10 million for information on Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps leadership

Fourteen IRGC names. Ten million a head. Mojtaba and Vahidi are on the poster. That is a bounty, not a press release.

Summary

  • The Washington Examiner reports the State Department is offering up to $10 million for information on 14 Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps leaders and allies, including Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei and IRGC Commander-in-Chief Ahmad Vahidi.
  • The notice says the 14 command and direct IRGC elements that plan, organize, and execute terrorism around the world, and that the Guard plays a central role in Iran's use of terrorism as statecraft.
  • State released a similar $10 million poster in early March on a different set of Guard figures, including then-top security official Ali Larijani. That version still listed a nameless IRGC commander because Washington did not know who held the job.
  • The new list follows a breakdown in U.S.-Iran talks and Trump's economic-strangulation strategy. The dollar figure matches the standard high-profile U.S. bounty, not a tit-for-tat stunt.

Commentary

A refinery welder in Port Arthur still feels slag on a sleeve and knows a bounty is a tool, not a slogan. He wants the men who built the proxy stack on a poster, not on a panel.

That is the gap. Fourteen names. Ten million. Mojtaba and Vahidi. March still had a blank commander. Now the chair has a name. The honest sailor in the Gulf does not need a debate club. He needs a walk-in that pays.

Ask every Gold Star household from the last IRGC proxy hit: if the poster is up, who still banks the 14?

Comments

Does a $10 million poster on 14 IRGC heads change the walk-in math?
u/border_dad · 5h

A named commander is better than a silhouette. Keep updating the chair.

u/midwest_vet · 4h

I briefed rewards once. Ten million is the number that moves a cousin in a third country.

u/rule_first · 4h

IRGC as a terror instrument is the designation talking. The poster is the statute with a phone line.

u/tokyo_ally · 3h

Allies should mirror the list. A unilateral poster still works. A joint one works faster.

u/docket_rat · 3h

Watch who called it a stunt because the dollar matches another bounty. The standard exists for a reason.

u/night_shift · 2h

My overtime does not fund a Guard payroll. Cut their banks. Pay the tip line.

u/texas_mom · 90m

If Vahidi is de facto, put him at the top of every customs brief, not just a PDF.

u/gulf_watch · 55m

Fourteen is a start. Add the cutout bankers. A poster without a finance name is half a hunt.

u/press_clip · 30m

The Examiner printed 14, $10 million, Mojtaba, Vahidi, and the March blank chair. Argue those nouns.

u/soc_lead · 15m

Fund the Rewards line. Share the photos. Sanction the banks that still clear the 14.

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