In 2010, the international community including the United Nations, European Union and United States imposed a series of economic and financial sanctions on the Iranian government for its controversial nuclear programme by restricting investments by multinational companies in the Iranian oil and...

There are over 3000 bilateral investment treaties in force which suggest that they have an important role in terms of promotion and attraction of foreign direct investment (FDI). This article expounds the substantive investment protection standards contained in Iranian BITs including admission,...

The article compares the substantive investment protection provisions in both Iranian investment code and the World Bank Guidelines on investment including admission of investment, treatment of investment, conditions for expropriation and standard of compensation and dispute resolution...

In Feb 2014 Iranian government launched a new oil investment contract to replace the outdated and unattractive buyback model that had been used for more than two decades for development of oil and gas fields. The new investment model is similar to the Production Sharing Agreement (PSA) and...