Tehran, YJC. Hosseini says that the Ahmadinejad administration has outdone other administrations in attracting foreign investments.
Speaking
in a meeting held for the announcement of the UNCTAD’s report on foreign
investment, Iran’s Minister of Economic and Financial Affairs Shamseddin
Hosseini said on Saturday "Despite tightened sanctions, the volume of foreign
investment in the past 7 years has been twice that of the 27 years prior to the
period.”
"The
number of foreign investment projects passed from 1979 to 2005 has been 200,
while from 2005 to the spring of 2013 there have been 631 foreign investment
projects,” the Minister said.
He added
"The total value of foreign investment has been $5 billion in the first 27
years after the Revolution, to increase to $10 billion in the past 7 years,
that means that in the past 7 years twice the amount of its preceding 27 years
foreign investment was attracted.”