Rises in the price of petrol are fuelling unrest in Iran

"Increasing petrol prices is to the people's benefit and also to help the society's strata under (economic) pressure," President Hassan Rouhani told a cabinet meeting, quoted by state news agency IRNA."No one should imagine that the government has done this because it is economically struggling; not at all, not a rial of this will go to the treasury," he added.