EghtesadOnline: The government has taken steps over the last year to commercialize gas stations as part of a scheme to privatize Iran's retail energy market.

EghtesadOnline: Rehabilitating dilapidated refineries, completing the Persian Gulf Star Refinery and Siraf Refineries Complex and commercializing gas stations top the National Iranian Oil Refining and Distribution Company's priorities.

EghtesadOnline: A southeastern European company is said to be close to entering Iran's retail fuel market in a move that could dial down government monopoly on the distribution and sale of gasoline and other fuel products.

EghtesadOnline: Iraq and Turkey are willing to cooperate with Iran in expanding and modernizing the country's aging gas stations, managing director of filling stations' planning and research center said.