As a kid, growing up amongst the wooded hills and white limestone outcrops of Allamakee County, Iowa, I had more than a passing acquaintance with rattlesnakes. Non-poisonous snakes, like bull-snakes and water snakes, I was under orders to leave alone, but the area's big timber rattlers I was allowed to go after, and in the summer I actively hunted them, for the meat (tastes like chicken), their hides, and their rattles. One thing I learned early on: To make sure a snake is dead, you have to cut off its head.
That applies to the leaders of rogue nations, sponsors of terror, like Iran. We already cut the snake's head off once, when we reduced Ayatollah Ali Khameini to room temperature. But now a new snake has emerged in the form of the old goblin's son, Mojtaba Khamenei. Now the United States is offering a substantial payment, $10 million in fact, for information as to the whereabouts of Khamenei the Younger, along with several of the regime's other top-ranking goblins. That's not a bad idea, either.
The State Department is offering a $10 million reward for information on Iran’s new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei and several senior officials linked to the powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
Officials said the reward, part of the State Department’s Rewards for Justice program, is an effort to gather intelligence on the IRGC and its leadership, which Washington accuses of orchestrating attacks against Americans and supporting terrorism.
The reward targets Mojtaba Khamenei, the son of Iran’s late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, along with several key figures inside Iran’s ruling security apparatus.
The department said it is also seeking information about Ali Asghar Hejazi, deputy chief of staff for the Supreme Leader’s Office, and Ali Larijani, secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council.
Granted, anyone within the regime who has this information faces tremendous personal risk should they try to communicate it to the United States or Israel. A slow, painful death, in fact, is the likely fate of any such person, should they be found out, and even if the new Ayatollah and his not-so-merry men should be captured or killed, even if Iran falls and a free, representative republic arises in its wake, they would still almost certainly have to seek refuge in some other part of the world; there would still be people in Iran, even a reborn Iran, who would have reason to attempt payback.
But $10 million in good old American currency is enough to set an Iranian ex-pat up in comfort almost anyplace on the planet.
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This is a program the State Department has used before.
The Rewards for Justice program allows the U.S. government to offer financial rewards for information that helps disrupt terrorist networks or identify individuals involved in attacks against Americans.
The State Department said individuals who provide credible information may be eligible for rewards of up to $10 million.
Here's my question: Why not just bring back a straight-out bounty system? Place a literal price on the head of that snake. In any condition, so long as he can be identified. Let's bring good old American free enterprise into this thing. Bring in some bad guys, and the taxpayers probably get a bargain, too; the bounties would likely still cost less than a major operation to go find these goblins and deal with them.
After all, Americans have a long history with this kind of arrangement.
Editor's Note: For decades, former presidents have been all talk and no action. Now, Donald Trump is eliminating the threat from Iran once and for all.
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