Domestic super petrol hits 103,000 tomans a litre, 69 times the rationed price

The price of domestically produced super petrol in Iran has been set at 103,000 tomans a litre. Mohammad-Sadegh Azimifar, managing director of the National Iranian Oil Products Distribution Company, announced on Sunday, 25 October 2026, that a contract had been signed under which this petrol will be sold at 50 fuel stations.

The price is nearly 69 times the 1,500-toman rationed petrol rate, 34 times the second-tier quota rate of 3,000 tomans and about 10 times the third-tier rate. According to Azimifar, refuelling with emergency cards now accounts for about 25 percent of sales.

Iran's three-tier petrol pricing

Private cars now receive 60 litres of 1,500-toman petrol and 50 litres of 3,000-toman petrol a month. Consumption beyond these two quotas is charged through emergency cards at 10,000 tomans a litre, a rate that was previously 5,000 tomans and has now doubled. Fatemeh Mohajerani, spokeswoman for the Pezeshkian government, had said this increase was planned for last winter and was delayed by the war.

Mohammad-Reza Aref, the Islamic Republic's first vice president, had earlier said each litre of imported petrol costs the government more than 70,000 tomans. Newly registered cars worth more than one billion tomans are also being excluded from the cheap quota; fuel distribution officials have acknowledged that inflation has pushed the price of some ordinary cars to that level too. The third-tier rate is reviewed every season by a government working group.

Costly fuel and cars under the blockade

The petrol price rise comes as the car market goes through a new wave of price increases: the price of the Dena Plus rose by 690 million tomans in a single month, and the gap between the factory and market prices of some cars has reached 3.7 billion tomans. Import restrictions and production problems have made the market even more chaotic.

At the same time, the Islamic Republic's oil revenue is shrinking fast under the pressure of the US naval blockade; the regime's floating oil storage has fallen to zero, and Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf has asked people to cut gas consumption by at least 10 percent.

Petrol price rises in Iran have a bitter history: the petrol price hike of November 2019 led to nationwide protests, which the Islamic Republic answered with a bloody crackdown.

At 103,000 tomans a litre, domestic super petrol is priced at nearly 69 times rationed petrol.