LONDON- Iran's gas output has risen 35 percent compared with 2012, the oil minister said on Monday.

The oil ministry's news agency SHANA quoted Bijan Zanganeh as saying that in the last ten months Iran has produced on average 840 million cubic metres of gas a day.

(Reporting by Bozorgmehr Sharafedin. Editing by Louise Heavens) ((bozorgmehr.sharafedin@thomsonreuters.com;))