WASHINGTON (The Thursday Times) — The United States is offering up to $20 million and possible relocation for information about Iran’s nuclear programme, including its facilities, its equipment and the people who work on it, under the State Department’s Rewards for Justice programme.
The offer covers information on Iran’s nuclear “facilities, equipment, and associated personnel, such as those in the scientific community, or the movement of any of the above”, the programme says. US Central Command promoted it on X on Friday. The notice has been published in Persian as well as English, and tips can be sent through several channels, including an encrypted messaging line and a Tor-based website.
The case Washington makes: the programme cites a 2025 finding by the International Atomic Energy Agency that Iran is enriching uranium to 60 percent purity, “a short technical step” from the 90 percent needed for a weapon. It says Iran is the only country without nuclear weapons to produce uranium at that level, and that its failure to meet its safeguards obligations has cost the agency “continuity of knowledge” about Iran’s production and stock of centrifuges.
The offer comes while the Trump administration is pursuing talks with Tehran. Vice President JD Vance has been speaking almost daily to Field Marshal Asim Munir and Qatar’s prime minister about a new ceasefire and a return to nuclear negotiations, and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has asked China to press Iran to end the war. Washington says any deal requires a firm and verifiable commitment that Iran will not rebuild its nuclear programme.
At a round of direct talks in Switzerland in the summer, Iran agreed to invite United Nations inspectors to its nuclear sites, a commitment that lapsed when the memorandum of understanding between the two sides collapsed.
There was no immediate response from Tehran.
