🔻Moghajerani: Balancing the fuel (gasoline) price is necessary

The Iranian government has warned that the high subsidy it pays for gasoline causes budget shortages in other sectors.

Fatemeh Moghajerani, the spokesperson for the Iranian government, in explaining the high cost of supplying gasoline, said that the cost of delivering each liter of gasoline to retail stations is about 4,000 tomans.

Ms. Moghajerani emphasized: “Naturally, when the government pays this difference, it faces a shortage of budget in other areas; therefore, this rate must be balanced so the government can manage other affairs.”

The government had also said last week that, as a result of the war, it has lost part of its gasoline production capacity.

Ms. Moghajerani had said that “with the enemy’s attack, gasoline production capacities were reduced and today we have to manage this issue.”

“We produce 100 million liters of gasoline per day, which will undoubtedly be provided to the people, but on the other hand, we import some of the gasoline and must allocate currency for it—the currency that should be used to supply essential goods, medicine, and raw materials for factories.”

During the war that began with simultaneous attacks by Israel and the United States on the 9th of Esfand last year, some Iranian oil and gas facilities, including in South Pars, were targeted.