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Payouts can be as high as $100,000 for tips that also include information on planned attacks targeting Americans.

The U.S. Navy’s Mideast-based 5th Fleet is starting to offer rewards for information that could help sailors intercept weapons, drugs and other illicit shipments across the region

While avoiding directly mentioning Iran, fleet's decision to offer cash and other goods for actionable intelligence in the Persian Gulf and other strategic waterways may increase pressure on the flow of weapons to Yemen proxies

The U.S. Navy will start offering up to $100,000 in cash for tips leading to the seizure of weapons, drugs and other smuggled goods in the waters of the Middle East. 

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The U.S. Navy's Mideast-based 5th Fleet is starting to offer rewards for information that could help sailors intercept weapons, drugs and other illicit shipments across the region amid tensions over Iran's nuclear program and Tehran's arming of Yemen's Houthi rebels.

Despite a U.N. arms embargo, Iran has long been arming Yemen's Houthi rebels and the new U.S. Navy program hopes to intercept those shipments.

DUBAI, July 4, (AP): The U.S. Navy’s Mideast- based 5th Fleet is starting to offer rewards for information that could help sailors intercept weapons, drugs and other illicit shipments across the region amid tensions over Iran’s nuclear program and Tehran’s arming of Yemen’s Houthi rebels. A U.S.

The U.S. Navy’s Mideast-based 5th Fleet says it seized $500 million in drugs alone in 2021 — more than the four prior years combined.

The U.S. Navy’s Mideast-based 5th Fleet is starting to offer rewards for information that could help sailors intercept weapons, drugs and other illicit…