In the past two weeks, Iran has rejoined the OPEC production freeze headline and jawboning fray, by making bold statements that it would be willing to work with OPEC on the recurring plan other members, mostly Venezuela, have proposed to push prices higher, namely freeze oil production (at a level which is an all-time high output for OPEC’s largest member, Saudi Arabia, beyond which it can’t produce even if it wanted). So earlier today, Iran’s oil minister Bijan Zanganeh made the most explicit statement on the topic, when he laid out the conditions under which Iran would be willing to “help other oil producers stabilize the world market.” It was a simple condition: Iran will cooperate as long as it is excluded from the freeze, or as Reuters put it, Iran will cooperate “so long as fellow OPEC members recognize its right to regain lost market share, […]