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Iran’s VP says subsidized gasoline price ‘unreasonable’
Speaking in the induction ceremony of new oil minister, Aref criticized the daily gasoline imbalance across the country and said Iranian refineries produce 110 million liters of gasoline per day while the daily consumption stands at 140 million liters, Shana reported.
President Masoud Pezeshkian said in a video published in August that fuel subsidies made no sense in Iran.
“There is no rationality in the fact that we buy gasoline with free market dollar prices and we sell it with a subsidized price,” Pezeshkian said in a video broadcast by state media. “Our economists and experts should stand up to these wrong policies.”
Pointing to the importance of cyber security in the oil industry, Aref stated that negligence has been witnessed in the field of fuel system hacking in recent years.
In December last year, Iran’s former oil minister Javad Owji confirmed that a nationwide disruption to petrol stations was caused by a cyber-attack.
A hacking group with links to Israel claimed it carried out the attack which disrupted services at petrol stations across the country on December 18, 2023.
Also, Gholam-Reza Jalali, head of Iran’s Passive Defense Organization said he considers the United States and the Israeli regime to have been behind a cyberattack that caused a temporary outage at gas stations in large cities across the Islamic Republic in October 2021.