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EghtesadOnline: Saudi Arabia’s dominance of OPEC isn’t what it once was. Iraq and Iran, shaking off shackles of sanctions and war, have raised oil output to record highs and are asserting themselves within the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries.

EghtesadOnline: With trays of sweet tea and a tour of Babylonian treasures at the national museum, Iraq’s Oil Minister Jabbar al-Luaibi welcomed energy reporters to Baghdad. A month after railing about OPEC data, he chose a softer approach to make the case that his country pumps more oil than the group acknowledges and won’t join other members in cutting output.

EghtesadOnline: Oil prices fell early on Monday as Iraq said it wanted to be exempt from any deal by producer cartel OPEC to cut production to prop up the market, and as U.S. drillers stepped up work.

EghtesadOnline: Iraq's oil minister has urged oil and natural gas producers operating in the country to continue increasing output next year, the oil ministry said in a statement on Sunday.

EghtesadOnline: Now is the right time for OPEC to reach an agreement on oil output, and crude prices may fall if its members fail to take a decision when they meet next week in Algiers, Iraq’s governor to the producer group said.

EghtesadOnline: Iraq has given fellow OPEC members the level of crude production at which it would be prepared to freeze output, according to the top official at the state oil marketing company.