India, Iran to seal gas pipeline deal 'by next month': oil minister

India expects to finalise a deal "by next month" on a pipeline that will transport gas from Iran, Indian Oil Minister Murli Deora told a foreign news agency on Thursday. He said the 7.5-billion-dollar project to transport Iranian gas across the subcontinent to India and Pakistan was discussed on the sidelines of the World Petroleum Congress industry event in Madrid. "We discussed this here again yesterday (Wednesday). There should be an end to dialogue now," Deora said in an interview with a foreign news agency at the World Petroleum Congress in Madrid when asked about the project. "The only one issue is where to take the delivery, the delivery point. We wanted it on the border of India and Pakistan and they were suggesting on the border of Pakistan and Iran.