Facing a conflict with the international community and particularly with the United States, Iran is subjected to the consequences of the American financial sanctions. Such sanctions penalize every Iran trade partners because they are deprived of access to the American market.

If on the rebound the mullahs mention economic retaliation against the reticent investors, since the start of the American sanctions in 2005 and the fall of investment influx, Teheran tried to counter them luring the investors with the perspective of a direct implantation into Iran’s market. This is how was born in 2005 the project to reform the article 44 of the Iranian Islamic Republic constitution. This article maintains a State monopole on key sectors regarding basic industries, infrastructures and natural resources.

In the meantime the regime created platforms of disguised lobbying in which supposedly financial experts praise the virtues of investment in Iran. Such efforts failed because we didn’t see much of the investors and there are always more sanctions. The publicity surrounding the reform of the article 44 became even more persistent: the regime always put on spectacular sale very high-ranked goods but there still hasn’t been any initiative from foreign companies.

Recently the regime thus went up to a gear announcing the names of the sectors it could potentially open to foreign investors. Indeed Europe was sensitive to this proposal made by Mottaki in the Figaro daily paper but it couldn’t be in position to satisfy Teheran with a break of the sanctions. It even adopted new (European) sanctions that upset more the financial habits of the mullahs and force them to turn toward partners that are less interesting and doesn’t sit in the Security Council.

This is the reason why Teheran crossed a new step declaring that foreign companies would be able to acquire until 35% of the entire Iranian State companies in each sector of the industry (such as steel for instance): mines, forests, roads, transportation, services and medias!

Those companies will be allowed to not re-invest their profit in Iran and transfer the totality of their profit towrad the destination of their choosing (i.e. toward tax heavens). Moreover three years after the purchase or investment, they can also transfer their capital out of Iran.

Iranians won’t own anything anymore into their own homeland and will become broke people, a cheap workforce that is appreciated into their country as well as abroad. We owe this to the mullahs but also to the morons’ cohort supporting them all over the world and considering them as the third-world defenders! Once Iran will be sold off cheaply, those dearest mullahs who are so useful to foreign companies will sell them the other countries in which they established their network (Lebanon for instance or some African States).

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 Comment l’Iran compte doper les investissements étrangers
 (1ER JUILLET 2008)