DUBAI - Iran's government denied on Monday it would treble the price of gasoline as part of subsidy reforms that have been commended by the IMF but caused anger at home among a population struggling under Western trade sanctions.
In a statement carried by the Fars news agency, the office of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said talk of a threefold price increase - broadcast on Friday by Ahmadinejad's bitter critic, the speaker of parliament - was "entirely false".
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In the statement, Ahmadinejad's office said: "Comments published saying the government has decided to sell gasoline at 2,000 toman per liter are entirely false."
