The United States has announced a reward of up to $20 million for information about Iran’s nuclear programme, offered through the State Department’s Rewards for Justice programme, with possible relocation for whoever provides it. The department said it is seeking information on the programme’s facilities, equipment and associated personnel, and pointed to Iran’s failure to meet its safeguards obligations to the International Atomic Energy Agency, which the department said has cost the agency continuity of knowledge over Iran’s production and inventory of key components such as centrifuges.
The announcement sits against an unresolved military standoff. President Donald Trump has repeatedly threatened to strike the suspected underground nuclear site at Pickaxe Mountain and said before this week’s midterm elections that he was in no rush to resume major strikes, while also saying on Friday that Iran wants a deal to end the eight-month conflict. Iran insists its programme is peaceful, and the BBC reported no direct Iranian response to the reward itself.