State Department Reward System for Sanctions Information Working Well, Official Says
The State Department’s Rewards for Justice Program is working well, a senior State Department official told reporters Nov. 7. The program was most recently used by the agency to offer up to $15 million for information that may further disrupt the U.S.-sanctioned Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (see 1909040055). The State Department announced the reward in hopes that it will lead to more sanctions as it continues its maximum-pressure campaign against Iran.
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The official said “new life” has been injected into the program. “This administration has given it a chance to grow in a sense of more money, more people to talk about it,” the official said. “I think it’s a great tool that has atrophied for a while and now it’s picking up, and very well so.”