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Ghalibaf urges Iranians to save gasoline and warns Gulf oil will stop if Iran's does

Mountain Time
Local time
7:56 PM in Tehran
Where
Tehran, Iran

Parliament speaker and chief negotiator Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said 'we need to save gasoline in our consumption' as Iran struggles to import fuel under the US naval blockade. He also warned that if the US tries to stop Iran exporting oil from the Persian Gulf, 'no one else will be able to export oil from this region either.'

Why it matters

It pairs a public admission of fuel strain from Iran's chief negotiator with an explicit threat to Gulf exports, Tehran's main lever against the blockade.

Sources (4)

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Correction

  • Corrected the time from 7:00 PM Tehran time, Sep 1, 2026 to 7:56 PM Tehran time, Sep 1, 2026; corrected the headline (it read "Iranian Official Urges Citizens to Cut Gasoline Use"); revised the summary; revised the context note; changed the confidence label from reported to official; reclassified it from economic-crisis to political; updated the sourcing note; added 3 sources: CBS News live updates, Iran International, The Guardian. Why and evidence