{"id":263545,"date":"2022-09-08T14:53:49","date_gmt":"2022-09-08T12:53:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=263545"},"modified":"2023-02-06T18:37:57","modified_gmt":"2023-02-06T17:37:57","slug":"iranian-regime-using-deceptive-strategy-to-raise-gasoline-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-resistance\/demonizing-mek\/iranian-regime-using-deceptive-strategy-to-raise-gasoline-prices\/","title":{"rendered":"Iranian Regime Using Deceptive Strategy To Raise Gasoline Prices"},"content":{"rendered":"

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There are currently some indications<\/a> that the Iranian regime is planning to increase the price of gasoline and other energy products. There are shortages at gas stations, with quotas being reduced to 100 liters, while at the same time, the regime\u2019s propaganda networks are amplifying claims that gasoline is being consumed at excessive rates and that low domestic prices have resulted in very high volumes of gasoline smuggling to neighboring countries. Such claims constitute familiar justifications for the regime to increase prices.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the relevant government officials are providing inconsistent responses to reports about pending increases. Most recently, the CEO of the Oil Products Refining and Distribution Company said: “The government quota of 60 liters in fuel cards remains, and only the free quota has decreased by 100 liters and has reached 150 liters<\/a> from 250 liters” (State-run TV \u2013 August 31).<\/p>\n

Contradictory statements, alternating confirmations and denials, and the implementation of temporary projects in some cities and regions of the country are well-known tricks of the regime to wear down social sensitivities.<\/p>\n

The lesson that the regime has learned from the uprising of November 2019<\/a> is that the price of sensitive goods such as gasoline and bread should be “managed” step by step through the creation of artificial shortages, which force people to stand in queues of several kilometers and prepares the ground for increasing the price of gasoline.<\/p>\n

The regime\u2019s false and deceptive propaganda states that Iran\u2019s gasoline price is the cheapest in the world and that its gasoline consumption is the highest. In this way, it deflects blame for the catastrophically high death rate due to air pollution, which currently amounts to 21,000 people annually. Claims about cheap gasoline also gloss over the fact that the cost of labor in Iran is also many times cheaper, with the salary of an average Iranian worker being only one-tenth to one-third that of their counterparts in neighboring countries of the region.<\/p>\n

The regime’s deceitful groundwork for increasing prices is not limited to gasoline and fuel; the regime is currently using the same method of deceptively increasing prices for other commodities, including bread.<\/p>\n

Reports from various cities indicate long queues in front of bakeries<\/a>. The supply of government flour to bakeries has decreased, and people, especially the poor, are forced to buy it from independent bakeries at several times the market price because government quotas do not provide for even basic consumption.<\/p>\n

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Why is Tehran spreading contradicting news and rumors about fuel prices?<\/div><\/div>
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