Iranian President requires OPEC unity to forestall US from pressuring members

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has urged members of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Nations (OPEC) to unite and persistently forestall the USA from pressuring any of them.

“The OPEC members ought to act in a means in order that their measures don’t hurt one other member. I consider that if the OPEC members act unitedly and persistently, the USA won’t be able to sanction and place one in every of them below stress,” Pezeshkian stated throughout a gathering with OPEC secretary-general Haitham Al Ghais in Iran’s capital Tehran.

An announcement from his workplace stated in the course of the assembly, Pezeshkian emphasised the “nice” significance of arriving at a standard language, perspective and coverage of OPEC members, calling for efforts to maintain the organisation away from politicisation.

For his half, Al Ghais praised Iran for its “constructive” function within the organisation, noting that as a founding member, the nation has all the time performed a “constructive” function in OPEC, Xinhua information company reported. Al Ghais stated OPEC has all the time sought to boost cooperation amongst its members to ensure their collective pursuits, highlighting the good significance of such collaboration.

On Wednesday 5 February, Iran’s first vice-president Mohammad Reza Aref had stated assembly and negotiating with US President Donald Trump, although not “inconceivable”, is just not on Iran’s agenda in the intervening time, the nation’s official information company IRNA reported.