Apparently Iran is one of the cheapest (if not the cheapest) countries when it comes to gasoline and utilities prices. Everything is subsidized in the country!

Apparently Iran is one of the cheapest (if not the cheapest) countries when it comes to gasoline and utilities prices. Everything is subsidized in the country! They are lucky that their economy hasn't collapsed already considering it is a big country with 80m+ population. And they have smuggling issues to neighboring countries for a long time. > According to Iranian counter-smuggling authorities, 17 percent of daily fuel production equivalent to some 40 million liters (10.6 million US gallons) were being smuggled out of the country every day in 2009. This is while most of the smuggling concerns gasoline and diesel fuel, whereas Iran imports both of these to the tune of 30 million liters (7.9 million US gallons) every day. Smugglers are using "lakes of fuel", underground pipelines to neighboring countries and oil tankers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Gasoline_Rationing_Plan_in_Iran https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Gasoline_Rationing_Plan_i...