Radio Farda - Grand Ayatollah Safi Golpayegani has called on the Iranian Parliament (Majles) on Saturday, November 16 to revoke the decision to increase the price of gasoline as massive protest demonstrations are raging in the streets of major Iranian cities. Golpaygani who is over 100-years old is one of the most senior and authoritative clerics ...

Reuters - One person was killed in the Iranian city of Sirjan during protests that erupted after President Hassan Rouhanis government imposed gasoline rationing and price hikes of at least 50 percent, Iranian ISNA news agency reported on Saturday. The government announced on Friday that the price of a liter of regular gasoline would increased to ...

The New York Times | Farnaz Fassihi and Rick Gladstone: The timing of the announcement suggested an urgent scramble to fill a budget gap caused partly by severe American sanctions. Angry protests over the price increases soon followed. Iran abruptly raised gasoline prices as much as 300 percent early Friday and imposed a strict rationing system,...

President.ir - Stressing the importance of governments move to increase the price of petrol and helping the lower-income and middle classes of the society with its income, the President said, This move will be beneficial to lower-income classes and can be effective in resolving their problems. Speaking on Friday in a meeting with cabinet members ...

AP Protesters angered by Iran raising subsidized gasoline prices blocked traffic in several cities and clashed occasionally with police Saturday, the day after overnight rallies included an attempted attack on a regional oil depot that saw police and demonstrators exchange gunfire. The demonstrations, though not as widespread as the economic protests ...

Financial Tribune | Hamid Molazadeh: Officials including oil minister, Bijan Namdar Zanganeh, say fuel prices need to increase. Should that not happen, they claim, rampant smuggling (10 million liters/day!) as well as domestic consumption (95m liters/day) will persist and likely get worse Drawing parallels between average annual income in Iran ...

Tehran Times - Yousof Hojjat, director for the transportation and traffic company affiliated to the Municipality of Tehran has warned of high consumption of gasoline in the country, criticizing it for being cheap. Some 100 million liters of gasoline is consumed in the country per day, he stated, Fars news agency reported on Tuesday. He went on ...

Financial Tribune - The National Iranian Oil Refining and Distribution Company has so far received no order from the Oil Ministry to raise gasoline prices or reintroduce the gasoline rationing system that ended in 2015, a spokeswoman of the company said on Saturday. "We are not policymakers -- we just implement rules and regulations of the ministry ...

MENAFN - Iran Economy and Finance Minister has rejected rumors of fuel price hike. "So far no plans to rise energy prices. Research centers have provided packages that are under consideration and no decision has been made so far,' Iran Economy and Finance Minister Farhad Dejpasand told IRIB. "The Family Support Packages will also be provided ...

Financial Tribune - Prices of gasoline and oil derivatives will experience no change until the end of the current fiscal year that started on March 21. Hossein Amiri-Khamkani, a member of Majlis Energy Commission, made the statement, ICANA reported on Saturday. Rejecting speculations about the rise in gasoline prices, he noted that neither the ...

SHANA -- The CEO of the National Iranian Oil Products Distribution Company (NIOPDC) denied rumors that the price of fuels, including gasoline, has increased in Iran amid bulging domestic consumption in summer. ? Speaking in a radio interview, Mohammad Reza Mousavikhah said, The rumors concerning increase price of energy carriers in the country are ...

The new Iranian Parliament may amend a law passed two months ago to introduce a two-tier pricing scheme for gasoline. Hossein Amiri-Khamkami, the deputy head of Majlis Energy Commission, said the parliament is open to consider bids to revise the legislation for gasoline prices that would "undermine economic transparency and spark off corruption",...

Irans gasoline consumption rose in the first quarter of thisyear which began on March 21 despite the countrys cancellation of subsidized fuel to motorists, the Ministry of Petroleum said on Monday. Iranians burnt 6.65 billion liters of gasoline in the period, a rise ofthree percent versus the similar period a year ago, figures published by the National ...

TEHRAN June 14(Shana)--Irans President Hassan Rouhani has come out in support of his administrations decision to scrap fuel subsidy. I dont favor price hike term because gasoline was [sold] at two rates and we unified it to single rate IRR 10,000 in accordance with a piece of legislation. The reason was clear because we had to act according to the ...

IFP has taken a look at the front pages of newspapers on Monday and picked headlines from 8 of them. IFP has simply translated the headlines and does not vouch for their accuracy. Comments by President Rouhani on measures to protect the environment dominated the front pages of Iranian newspapers on Monday.   Abrar: Womens entry into sporting ...

Iran's Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh says rumors about further hike in gasoline price incoming months are not true and fuel price will remain at its current level. Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of his visit to an exhibition of the achievements of Iran's offshore engineering companies on Sunday, Zanganeh said such rumors amount to disturbing ...

TEHRAN May 31(Shana)--A deputy governor of Central Bank of Iran has said that the recent increase in fuel prices was required by the annual budget bill. Akbar Komeijani said the lawmakers had approved the articles on fuel price hike envisaged in the budget bill. He, however, said the fuel price hike would not much influence the inflation rate in ...

Sadegh Zibakalam has asked in a letter to the government spokesman to explain to people the positive results the government decision to raise gasoline prices will produce in the long run. Tehran University professor Sadegh Zibakalam has in a letter supported governments decision to scrap gasoline subsidies and raise prices at the pump, criticizing ...

IFP has taken a look at the front pages of newspapers on Thursday and picked headlines from 18 of them. IFP has simply translated the headlines and does not vouch for their accuracy. The Supreme Leaders remarks in a meeting Wednesday with the MPs that government ministers should be treated respectfully and politely dominated the front pages of Iranian ...

TEHRAN May 27(Shana)--A senior government official has said that the recent rise in gasoline prices in Iran was in accordance with the law and the government was obliged by the subsidies reform plan to raise the prices. Head of Management and Planning Organization Mohammad-Baqer Nobakht said in a televised speech on Tuesday that inflation is not ...