Oil prices have risen from around $35 a barrel since Israel launched its Gaza offensive Dec. 27, heightening fears for crude supplies from the Middle East.
An Iranian military commander called for Islamic producers to cut supplies to Israel's supporters in Europe and the United States, the official IRNA news agency reported Sunday.
However an OPEC source told Reuters the Iranian comments would not sway other members of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries.
"There are no plans to do this and I think it is very unlikely,'' the OPEC source told Reuters Monday.
OPEC's most influential member, Saudi Arabia, and its neighbors Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar, are regional allies of the United States.
But analysts said heightened tensions in the Middle East—origin of a third of the world's crude—would remain supportive of oil prices.
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