0555 GMT: We open this morning with the assessment in Aftab that gasoline prices in Iran will rise 20% to 40% this year amidst domestic and international issues over oil production and iimports.
The estimate is only one of a series of gloomy pieces about the economy in Aftab, far from a radical Iranian outlet. The website ponders that inflation --- officially declared to be 21% --- may in fact at least 50% this spring and summer.
You will not find these stories from State news agency IRNA. It prefers the re-assurance that a new field in South Pars, one of the world's largest reservoirs of oil and gas, will be operatio nal this year.
Development of South Pars has been hindered since 2009 by a withdrawal of foreign investment and technology.
IRNA's lead story this morning is also oil-morning on the international front. Once again, it puts out the insistence --- this time from a former President of China's National Energy Administration of China --- that Beijing's oil imports from Iran are not under the command of any other country and China will act only according to its needs.
IRNA does not mention that, despite this public line, China has almost halved its imports of Iranian oil since January.
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