Visiting Imam Khomaini Refinery’s development plan in Shazand, the minister of petroleum expressed satisfaction with the project’s progress calling more efforts by its personnel to launch the project sooner.

He called upgrading the refinery’s oil products as the other target of the project noting the project plays a big role in meeting the country’s needed oil products.

Mirkazemi stipulated that launching the development plan means hitting another blow to the failed imposed sanctions against the country.

Iran’s minister of petroleum also said yesterday West was the loser of the ‘sanctions game’.

Speaking on the sideline of holding a meeting with the speaker of Indonesia's Regional Representative Council Irman Gusman, Dr. Mirkazemi said that by start-up of new oil refineries’ development plans on the anniversary of Islamic Revolution victory in February 2011 or before the end of current Iranian calendar year on 21 March 2011, Iran’s gasoline production capacity would rise by at least 10 million liters a day.

‘Currently our petrochemical plants are producing the domestically needed gasoline but gasoline production by the petrochemical plants has been reduced recently because of high level of inventories and maximum crude run by the oil refineries to produce oil products,’ Mirkazemi said.

He continued: ‘Iran’s petrochemical plants are producing 98 to 100 octane number gasoline with much better quality than imported ones.’

' The rumors on domestically produced gasoline and linking intensified air pollution to it is originating from abroad; West has lost the sanctions game and the false news on the cause of pollution is the last ring of unconsidered sanctions,’ Iran’s minister of petroleum noted.