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Iranian refiners have been obliged to supply gasoline meeting Euro-4 standards since the beginning of the next Iranian calendar year (March 21, 2013), Mehr news agency quoted Iranian Standards Organization's Deputy Director Bahador Kazemi as saying, Trend news agency reported.

The produced gasoline currently meets Euro-2 standards, he said, adding that newly established refineries are able to produce gasoline which meets both Euro-4 and Euro-5 standards.

In December 2012, IRNA quoted Ali-Mohammad Sha'eri, the Iranian environment protection department's deputy director, as saying that some 50 million liters of gasoline and diesel, meeting Euro-4 and Euro-5 standards, will be produced in Iran by the end of the current Iranian calendar year.

The amount of fuel will be produced by Shazand, Tondgouyan, Abadan, and Lavan refineries, he added.

In October 2012, ISNA quoted National Iranian Oil Production and Distribution Company's managing director Alireza Zeighami as saying that Iran is currently producing 25 million liters of premium gasoline per day, meeting Euro-4 and Euro-5 standards.

The country's gasoline output is projected to hit 70 million liters per day by the end of the next Iranian calendar year, he added.

He also said that diesel oil output will reach 95 million liters per day by the end of the current Iranian year, of which 25 million liters meet Euro-4 and Euro-5 standards.