Iran’s Oil Minister Javad Owji has said that the country has no plans for increasing gasoline prices, according to IRNA official news agency.
The minister made the remarks on Saturday in reaction to what he said was rumors by some media outlets, especially certain hostile media, to disturb the public peace.
“We have no problem neither in the prices nor in the distribution of gasoline,” Owji said.
Referring to the record 137 million liters of daily gasoline consumption in the last days of summer holidays, he said that “we had predicted such a rise in consumption and we were not surprised neither in the matter of production nor in the matter of storage.”
He touched upon government plans to give a boost to gasoline production, noting that Iran is now producing some 15 million more gasoline than figures reported before President Ebrahim Raeisi came to power in August 2021.