Iranian borderers to sell diesel fuel to neighboring countries
Iran has started implementing a plan to provide diesel fuel to
borderers in order to be sold to customers in the neighboring
countries, IRNA news agency quoted Director General of the National
Iranian Oil Products Distribution Company Mostafa Kashkouli as
saying.
"In the first step, borderers in Hirmand and Saravan cities [in the
southeastern province of Sistan-Baluchestan] have been provided
with diesel fuel," he added.
He referred to the plan as a step toward creating jobs for people
and curb fuel smuggling.
Each liter of diesel fuel is delivered to borderers at 23,000 rials
and they sell it 30,000 rials per liter.
"Some 12 million liters of diesel fuel is supplied to the borderers
per month," he said.
Previously, Kashkouli said Iran has formed a special committee to
curb fuel smuggling.
Fuel smuggling at border areas is decreasing, he noted. The
committee is tasked with preventing illegal exports of fuel, he
added.
On March 3, Mehr news agency quoted Iran's National Police Chief
Esmaeil Ahmadi-Moqaddam as saying that some $6.5 million worth of
fuels smuggled into Iran per day.
More than four million liters of smuggled fuel were discovered and
seized in southeastern part of Iran during the first eleven months
of the past Iranian calendar year, which ended on March 20.
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