US Seeks Tips to Disrupt China’s Tech Transfers to Iran, Offers $15 Million

Iran’s IRGC, which controls ‘vast segments’ of the country’s economy and plays a role in the country’s politics, received support from four Chinese nationals.

Navy vessels taking part in a joint Iranian-Russian-Chinese military drill in the Gulf of Oman, on March 12, 2025. Iranian Army Office/AFP via Getty Images

The U.S. Department of State on March 19 posted a $15 million bounty through the Rewards for Justice program, calling for information that would assist with the disruption of dual-use technology supply lines from China to Iran.

The State Department specified that the desired information should be instrumental in derailing the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) “financial mechanisms” that enable terrorist attacks through proscribed proxy militias such as Hamas and Hezbollah.