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Iran’s Oil Minister Gholam-Hossein Nozari said Tuesday that there’s no reason for OPEC states to increases oil production, PressTV Iran reported.

“There is no reason for the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) to raise output as we are approaching the warm season,” Nozari noted ahead of OPEC’s meeting in Vienna on Friday, February 1.

The West, including the United States, has stepped up pressure on OPEC members to increase oil production to combat persistently high energy prices that many economists believe have slowed the U.S. and global economies. OPEC supplies about 40% of the world’s oil.

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