Iranian police chief: WTF are you doing?

Police Chief: Gasoline rationing implemented suddenly

Police Chief Esmaeil Ahmadi-Moqaddam complained on Wednesday gasoline rationing was implemented suddenly and without prior notice. Speaking on the sidelines of the Sixth International Police Safety and Security Equipment Exhibition (IPAS 2007), Ahmadi-Moqaddam noted that miscreants who attacked gas stations will be confronted, IRNA reported.

“The government was supposed to inform people at least 24 hours before enforcing the rationing scheme which, unfortunately, did not happen,“ he said. The police chief also told reporters that the police came to learn about gasoline rationing like other people through the media. “This is while we had a security plan ready before the implementation of gasoline rationing,“ he said.

Ahmadi-Moqaddam pointed out that the police personnel were called in for implementing security measures after the scheme was scheduled.

This is a good one - the attacks on gas stations and banks(!) didn't have anything to do with the rationing scheme. Yeah. Right.

Commenting on incidents that erupted after gasoline rationing went into effect, including the torching of gas stations and attacks on banks, Ahmadi-Moqaddam said these incidents did not have anything to do with the rationing scheme. “Most of these incidents happened in Tehran and 17 gas stations were set on fire, several cars were torched and some banks and commercial units were damaged,“ he said.