New Delhi: Iran today said it could not wait ''indefinitely'' for India to decide on the Iran-Pakistan-India (IPI) gas pipeline project while negotiations with Pakistan had gone ahead to the ''stages of implementation.''

''Our negotiations with Pakistan have gone ahead to the stages of implementation...We have kept our doors open for India to join the project. It (Iran) will not wait indefinitely.

There must be a time limit,'' Iranian Ambassador to India Seyed Mehdi Nabizadeh said here.a