Prince Reza Pahlavi, by publishing a post on the X network, attacked the Islamic Republic’s policy for raising the price of gasoline and said that this move is the result of the regime’s “incompetence and structural disorder” in Iran’s energy market.

Prince Reza Pahlavi wrote about this: “In a situation where the Islamic Republic spends the country’s resources on foreign terrorists and internal oppressors, the system’s officials and those close to them compete with one another in looting national assets, and the regime’s incompetence in running the country has broken the households’ budgets and made Iranians poorer.”

By pointing to fuel smuggling and the high consumption of domestically produced cars, he added: “On the one hand, the IRGC smuggling mafia daily siphons off tens of millions of liters of Iran’s capital through tankers, pipelines, and smuggling ports, and on the other hand, the car mafia forces the people to put up with low-quality, high-consumption vehicles.”

He further added: “This criminal sect, which is incapable of solving the problem, through its propaganda apparatus places the burden of fuel shortage on the people and introduces them as the cause of increased consumption and fuel smuggling.”