Iran listens to peaceful protesters, but responds to disturbances
TEHRAN (Iran News) – A spokesman for the Guardian Council, Iran’s vetting body, says the country has always listened “with open ears” to peaceful protesters, but security forces had duty during last month’s violent riots to deal with acts of vandalism and sabotage. In an interview with France 24 released on Wednesday, Abbas-Ali Kadkhodaei underlined […]
Daily consumption of gasoline dropped by %15.9
TEHRAN (Iran News) – Iran’s daily consumption of gasoline has dropped by almost a sixth more than a month after the government announced its controversial fuel price hikes. A senior Oil Ministry official said on Monday that the total gasoline pumped into the cars across the country had decreased to 75.5 million liters a day […]
Gasoline Export Rise to 40 mln Litres; Iran Expects
TEHRAN (Iran News) – Head of energy commission of Tehran Chamber of Commerce predicted on Monday that, in case the government provides 65 trillion rials (about $500 million) of grants for converting cars into bi-fuel ones – running on both gasoline and CNG – Iran would be able to save 40 million liters of gasoline […]
Gasoline Export Can Reach to 30 Mln Litres
TEHRAN (Iran News) – A senior energy official announced that Iran’s gasoline export, for now, includes some 25 million to 30 million liters per day as a result of the implementation of the gasoline rationing scheme that recently came back into force. Spokesman of the Iranian Oil, Gas and Petrochemical Products Exporters’ Union Hamid Hosseini […]
Damages of recent unrest; banks and gas stations on fire
TEHRAN (Iran News) – Interior Minister Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli says 731 banks and 70 gas stations were set ablaze or damaged during the recent unrest in the country. “731 banks were torched with fire, among other damages of recent unrest,” Rahmani Fazli said on Tuesday evening on state TV. “Also, 140 public places, 70 gas […]
Not joining riots admired
TEHRAN (Iran News) – The fact that from the very first hours demonstrators were not joining riots and thugs in the last week’s protests over increase in gasoline price testifies the people’s vigilance and this is admirable, Brigadier General Ayoub Soleimani, the deputy police chief, said on Tuesday. On Monday, people poured into Tehran’s main […]