According to one Iranian official, there’s one simple step toward alleviating the surge in oil prices, and he’s not the first person to suggest it.

“ ‘The Trump administration is pushing politics into the OPEC, and is aiming at spreading the members and securing their own interests by getting lower prices and so forth. I am telling him, keep quiet, do not do any tweets, and then you will be better off in the prices.’ ”

That’s Iran OPEC representative Hossein Kazempour lashing out at the president to CNBC on Sunday in Algiers.

Trump has slammed OPEC for intentionally inflating oil prices, calling it a “monopoly” and urging it to lower prices.