Tehran - Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki has said that no deadline had been set for Iran by world powers regarding the ongoing dispute over the Islamic republic's nuclear programme, Tehran media reported Thursday.

"The terminology of deadline is not clear us as we have presented the world powers our standpoints and now await their view," Mottaki was quoted as saying by official news agency IRNA.

Washington had following talks in Geneva on July 19 between Iran and the five UN veto powers plus Germany (5+1) said that Tehran had two weeks to respond to the latest package aimed at resolving the nuclear dispute. That deadline is due to expire on Saturday.

Nicosia, July 31: In the course of this month, the Iranian Minister of Petroleum Gholamhossein Nozari announced three significant oil discoveries in the south-west of the country.

Currently, Iran is the second largest producer among the countries of OPEC, behind Saudi Arabia.

The latest discovery was made near the city of Abadan. The estimated oil-in-place amounts to 500 million barrels.

Nozari said the new oilfield would be called Arvand.

Tehran - Iran's supreme leader said Wednesday that world powers would not change their policies towards Iran even if Tehran made concessions on its nuclear dispute with them.

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei called the view that Iranian concessions on its nuclear programme would lead world powers to change their policy towards Iran "totally irrational and wrong."

The international community is awaiting Iran's reply to the latest Western-proposed package, under which it is to choose between suspending uranium enrichment and receiving economic incentives in return, or not suspending and facing further financial sanctions.

Tehran - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said it would take 20 years to correct mistakes made by US President George W Bush's administration, the Fars news agency reported Wednesday.

"The US is currently going through its worst phase in history: They have an economic crisis, politically they have reached a dead end and even European nations hate the US thoughts and approaches," Ahmadinejad said.

Brussels - The public mass execution of 29 convicted criminals in Iran was an "affront to human dignity," the European Union said in a statement condemning the move on Tuesday.

The 27-member bloc "condemns in the strongest terms the 29 simultaneous executions which took place in Evin prison, Iran, on Sunday," a statement written by the French government, which currently holds the EU's rotating presidency, and approved by all EU member states, said.

The EU "considers that the Iranian regime's action of staging these executions and making them the focus of media attention is an affront to human dignity," the statement said.

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