Mohammad Ali Talebi
Governor of Kerman province; halted a provincial petrol price rise within hours in August 2026.
As governor of Kerman province, Mohammad Ali Talebi ordered a market-rate petrol scheme scrapped within hours of its 12 August 2026 launch, restoring the subsidised card rate at 204 stations.
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Why did Kerman's governor personally intervene to cancel a fuel price rise?
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Escalated the petrol price rise to national authorities in person
Iran Conflict 2026: Kerman scraps petrol rise in a dayBackground
Mohammad Ali Talebi is the governor of Kerman province in southern Iran. He previously served as governor of Yazd province from 2018 to 2021, before his move to Kerman. Wikimedia Commons describes him as an Iranian reformist politician; that characterisation, from an openly licensed portrait, is the only characterisation of his politics in the record.
Talebi's page rests on a single recorded act as Kerman's governor rather than a documented career.
Talebi reversed Kerman's petrol-price rise
When a market-rate petrol scheme took effect across Kerman province on 12 August 2026, Governor Mohammad Ali Talebi moved to kill it within hours, taking the matter to national authorities in person rather than leaving it to provincial channels .
The Kerman branch of the National Iranian Oil Products Distribution Company confirmed the reversal by the next morning, restoring the subsidised rate. That single, fast decision, made and enforced personally rather than delegated, is the entirety of Talebi's recorded wartime record.
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