TEHRAN: Iran is exporting around 350,000 barrels of crude oil a day to India and hopes to increase this number, Oil Minister Bijan Zanganeh was quoted as saying on Saturday after meeting Indian counterpart Dharmendra Pradhan. The Shana news agency, linked to Iran’s oil ministry, quoted Zanganeh as saying Indian oil purchases from Iran were at 350,000 barrels a day, and that ‘we hope this number will increase now that sanctions have been lifted’. The two ministers signed a cooperation pact covering oil exports, the petrochemical sector and the development of a gas field, though there were no reports of any final deals being signed.