(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) The federal government is offering up to $20 million and potential relocation assistance in exchange for information about Iran’s nuclear program.
The sum is part of the State Department’s Rewards for Justice program, created by Congress in 1984 under the Act to Combat International Terrorism.
The RFJ program is specifically seeking information about Iranian facilities, equipment, associated personnel and individuals in the country’s scientific community.
A flyer posted by the State Department indicates that the government is also seeking information about the technologies and capabilities of Iran’s nuclear program.
“Do your part,” the U.S. government website reads. “Secure a safer world and a brighter future.”
The Pentagon’s U.S. Central Command promoted the program Friday night in an X post, prompting questions about whether the reward contradicts President Donald Trump’s assurances that U.S. military operations had wiped out Iran’s nuclear capabilities.
The multimillion-dollar program, however, appears to be part of the federal government’s broader, ongoing effort to monitor and prevent potential attempts to revive its nuclear ambitions.
Rewards for Justice is offering a reward of up to $20 million and possible relocation for information about Iran’s nuclear program, including its facilities, equipment, and associated personnel, such as those in the scientific community, or the movement of any of the above.… pic.twitter.com/ruTNlZxqFh
— U.S. Central Command (@CENTCOM) November 7, 2026
TRUMP ON IRAN: “If they had a nuclear weapon, I'd be calling the Supreme Leader and I'd be saying, ‘Mr. Supreme Leader, how are you, sir? Is there anything we can do for you?' as opposed to bombing the crap out of him."
“It's very simple. We cannot let them have a nuclear… pic.twitter.com/hGqijfXZFT
— Fox News (@FoxNews) September 10, 2026
The RFJ program has targeted individuals operating in Iran since the Obama administration. For instance, in December 2011, the Obama-led State Department offered up to $10 million for information leading to the location of Iran-based al-Qaida facilitator and financier Ezedin Abdel Aziz Khalil, also known as Yasin al-Suri.
As of Saturday evening, the program’s other targets included i-Soon, a Chinese software company that the State Department accuses of carrying out malicious cyber operations on behalf of the Chinese government.
Other targets are the drug cartels designated by the Trump administration as Foreign Terrorist Organizations. The government is offering rewards of up to $10 million each for information about i-Soon and designated drug cartels.
The government is also offering up to $5 million for information about the 2003 bombing of a U.S. diplomatic convoy in Gaza that killed American security contractors John Branchizio, Mark Parsons and John Martin Linde Jr.
