Iran Gov’t Moves to Regulate Distribution Network

Eager to contain the mounting public outrage over the recent car price hikes, the hard-pressed Industries Ministry has decided to shift the focus to aggravating factors closer to home, especially the distribution network.
For years the auto market has suffered from the presence of dealers who purchase vehicles at factory prices and sell to the public on the free market at much higher rates.
Amid the manifold factors contributing to the current exorbitant prices from the reimposition of US sanctions, the plummeting value of the rial, defective government import and industrial policies, dealer’s meddling in the market and the jump in prices of raw materials, the only long-ignored and controllable aspect seems to be the dealers’ role in bottlenecking the supply of factory-priced vehicles to the public.