Caretaker of the Iranian Oil Ministry Gholam Hossein Nozari said that his country would produce 5.3 bln barrels of oil per day by the year 2014.

Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Seyed Mohammad Ali Hosseini here Wednesday stressed that the testimony of the two US senior officials to the Congress on Iraq war would not rescue the United States from the Iraq quagmire.

Iranian officials said on Wednesday that Kian Tajbakhsh, an Iranian-American arrested on charges of harming national security earlier this year, would not be allowed to leave the country after he is released on bail.