US posts $15mn bounty for help with ‘disrupting’ finances of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps
RT | September 4, 2019
The US government has offered a reward of up to $15 million for information that helps “disrupt” the financial operations of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), while slapping a new round of sanctions on Tehran.
The lavish bounty was announced on Wednesday as part of the Rewards for Justice program, run by the State Department, which offers financial incentives for information on alleged “terrorist activities” that target the US. The IRGC, an elite branch of Tehran’s military, was designated by Washington as a terrorist organization in April.
The US State Department is seeking information on any companies and individuals who allegedly help the IRGC with “evading US and international sanctions” as well as those who merely “do business” with the military unit.
Apart from issuing the bounty notice, Washington has issued a new sanctions package against an “oil-for-terror” network – as they put it – allegedly run by the IRGC. The sanctions broadside targeted 16 companies and nine individuals, allegedly involved in supplying Iranian oil to Syria in breach of US sanctions. Six oil tankers linked to such activities were also placed on the list.
The new round of sanctions and the bounty offer were lauded by top US officials, who gave themselves a pat on the back for taking action against the alleged network.
Washington will continue to impose new sanctions on the country to maintain “maximum pressure,” US special representative for Iran Brian Hook said, adding that “we are not looking to grant any exceptions or waivers.”
Such an approach effectively buries France’s idea to provide Tehran with a $15 billion credit line, suggested earlier by Foreign Minister Jean-Yves le Drian, who explicitly said that such a deal would require sanction waivers from the US. The proposed credit arrangement would be guaranteed by Iranian oil revenues and require Tehran to comply with the 2015 nuclear deal, known as the JCPOA, as well as to enter negotiations on regional security.
Tehran has repeatedly urged the EU countries to actually do something to save the 2015 agreement and secure sanctions relief from the US. Earlier on Wednesday, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani gave Europe two months to do so, promising to further rollback on its commitments under the JCPOA if this doesn’t happen.
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Surely you all are pranking me. Cut it out wouldja? If it all weren’t so tragic it would be humorous.
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Hey, America! You’re pathetic. How disgusting that you think you still matter. Morons.
Israel too. Pathetic.
Bring your RED FLAG laws to me. I’ll be glad to teach you.
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Don’t worry (and I expect this comment to be deleted), Islam is next. But first, USreal.
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But I’m told to respect the soldiers that do war for USrael. Sorry men. And women. I can’t do that. I think you should all go AWOL.
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All of their machines in the world can’t match you all. Don’t be part of their needless meat-machine for Israel.
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Please.
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All you folks who make money from war? Fuck yourselves.
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The goyim know. Shut it down.
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Hey, Obama! How’s the Hamptons? Asking for a friend.
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Obama did it by drone, apparently. Oops. Did I say the sacred name? What a joke.
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Many humans RUN to a lie. They run to it.
It’s a terrible thing.
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My only feeling right now is: DISGUST.
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That’s the feeling I always get when my lying government, under the shekels of another government that only cares about shekels—DISGUST.
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What else is there than disgust? There’s no need for violence. Justice and vengeance are not for us. They will happen though.
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Liars. One and all.
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“Rewards for Justice program, run by the State Department”???
“Rewards for Justice”…sounds like what happens in Congress……The rest of the World calls it BRIBERY, and, as happens in the USA, The “MONEYMEN” call the tune.
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Apparently “Sanctions” just aren’t working…whelp let’s git some fake dollars to tern’em in. Yep.
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One good piece of news. An Iran captain who refused a huge bribe. An honest and brave man rose out of this mess – congratulations Sir.
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