Investing in Iran, explained in eight languages
Twelve investment topics — legal framework, sector economics, taxation, capital markets and logistics — each published as a standalone research hub in English, Spanish, French, German, Arabic, Persian, Russian and Chinese.
Tehran — Iran's commercial centre
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Foreign direct investment under FIPPA
The Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection Act (FIPPA) is the legal spine of every inbound investment into Iran. It converts a commercial decision into a state-recognised position with defined protections over capital, profits and dispute resolution.
Open hubIran's free trade-industrial zones
Iran operates seven Free Trade-Industrial Zones and dozens of Special Economic Zones. They are the fastest legal route into the country: a zone entity can be registered without a FIPPA licence and carries a statutory tax holiday.
Open hubCompany registration in Iran
Registering an Iranian entity is a documentary process, not a discretionary one. With a complete file, name reservation to registration gazette takes three to six weeks.
Open hubTaxation and banking for foreign investors in Iran
Iran's headline tax burden is modest by regional standards — a 25% flat corporate rate, 9% VAT and no withholding on dividends. The complexity sits in the banking and settlement layer, not the tax code.
Open hubIran's petrochemical industry
Petrochemicals are Iran's largest non-oil export industry and the clearest expression of its structural advantage: the world's second-largest gas reserves feeding conversion capacity at a fraction of the marginal cost faced by European or East Asian producers.
Open hubRenewable energy in Iran
Iran combines a world-class solar resource — above 2,000 kWh/m² per year across the central plateau — with a chronic summer generation deficit. That pairing is the investment case: demand is not speculative.
Open hubIran's mining and metals sector
Iran holds roughly 7% of global mineral reserves across more than 60 commodities, and remains one of the least systematically explored major mineral provinces in Eurasia.
Open hubInvesting on the Tehran Stock Exchange
The Tehran Stock Exchange and its over-the-counter market Iran Fara Bourse together list several hundred companies spanning petrochemicals, metals, banking, telecoms and consumer goods.
Open hubAgriculture and agribusiness in Iran
Agriculture employs a large share of the Iranian workforce and supplies an 88-million-person domestic market plus established export channels for pistachios, saffron, dates and dried fruit.
Open hubIran's technology and digital economy
Iran produces a very large annual cohort of STEM graduates and has built domestic platforms across ride-hailing, e-commerce, fintech and cloud that operate at national scale.
Open hubIran's transit corridors and logistics
Iran is the shortest land bridge between the Indian Ocean and the Caspian, and between Central Asia and the Gulf. Geography, not policy, is the asset.
Open hubHealthcare and pharmaceuticals in Iran
Iran manufactures the large majority of the medicines it consumes by volume and has built biotech capability in biosimilars and vaccines that is unusual for the region.
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