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Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said that Iran will not need to import gasoline from Feb.11.
By imposing embargo on Iran's gasoline import the West expected dissatisfaction inside the country and people's fight against the power, Khamenei said during his speech on the Friday prayer. However, Iran relied on its domestic resources and the country does not need to import gasoline as a result of taken measures, Khamenei said.
During his speech on IRIB state television channel in live broadcasting, Khamenei said that Iran will be able to export gasoline to abroad in the near future.
Iranian oil refineries produced 44.7 million liters of gasoline per day in August 2010.
Today, the oil refinery in Bandar Abbas (21 percent of all gasoline produced in the country), oil refinery in Abadan (20,2 percent), Isfahan (18,2 percent), Tehran (15 percent), Arak (10,4 percent), Tabriz (6,2 percent), Shiraz (3.8 percent), Lavan (2,4 percent) and Kermanshah (1,7 percent) produce gasoline in Iran. The country's internal need for gasoline is over 60 million liters per day.
The UN Security Council adopted the resolution 1929 imposing new international sanctions against Iran proposed by the United States on June 9. Then additional unilateral sanctions against the Islamic Republic were declared by the U.S. administration. Foreign ministers of the EU countries approved a package of unilateral anti-Iran measures on July 26, including the decision to reduce exports of gasoline to Iran.
French oil and gas group Total became the last Western company, which halted deliveries of oil products, particularly petrol, to Iran after the United States imposed unilateral sanctions against that country. Earlier deliveries of petrol to Iran were halted by Anglo-Dutch concern Royal Dutch Shell PLC, British Petroleum, Dutch-Swiss traders Vitol Holding BV and Trafigura Beheer BV, Swiss commodities trader Glencore International AG, as well as Russian Lukoil, Malaysian state-owned Petroliam Nasional Bhd ( Petronas).