GENEVA - Production from the West Karoun oilfields in southwest Iran has increased to 300,000 barrels per day (bpd), Oil Minister Bijan Zanganeh was quoted as saying by the Iranian Students' News Agency (ISNA) on Thursday.

Daily production is up from 70,000 bpd five years ago, Zanganeh said.

(Reporting by Babak Dehghanpisheh; editing by Jason Neely) ((babak.dehghanpisheh@thomsonreuters.com;))