New Delhi, March 15 -- The United States has placed a $10 million (over Rs.83 crore) bounty on Iran's new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei and a clutch of senior Iranian officials tied to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), in one of Washington DC's most aggressive intelligence gambits against Tehran, since war began. The bulletin published by US identified six people including Iran's new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, and top national security official Ali Larijani.

The State Department has formally listed Mojtaba Khamenei, son of the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and Iran's newly installed paramount leader, under its Rewards for Justice programme, alongside several high-ranking figures embedded within Iran's sec...