FDI at 20% growth in seven months

TEHRAN, Dec. 09 (MNA) – Iranian Minister of Economic Affairs and Finance (MEAF) Farhad Dejpasand said that Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) registered a 20 percent growth in the first seven months of the current Iranian calendar year (started March 21), showing a growth as compared to the last year’s corresponding period.

He made the remarks on Mon. in the Parliament and said, “under the tough sanctions imposed by the US against the Islamic Republic of Iran, Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) increased 20 percent at large.”

The Ministry of Economy has tried to follow up one of the methods of financing through attracting direct investment in the country especially in sanctions period, Dejpasand added.

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