The Iranian Association of International Studies International Relations Researches 2251-8444 14 2 2024 08 22 The most important obstacles and challenges related to supporting domestic and foreign investment in Iran The most important obstacles and challenges related to supporting domestic and foreign investment in Iran 251 273 224148 10.22034/irr.2025.516879.2691 FA Amir Hosein Nazari PhD student, Law Department, Yazd Branch, Islamic Azad University, Yazd, Iran. Iraj Hoseini Sadrabadi Assistant Professor, Law Department, Faculty of Judicial Sciences, Yazd, Iran. Mohammad Hosein Jafari Assistant Professor, Law Department, Yazd Branch, Islamic Azad University, Yazd, Iran. Journal Article 2025 04 14 Supporting domestic and foreign investment in Iran is of great importance for several reasons, but at the same time it faces many challenges and obstacles. To attract and support domestic and foreign investment, Iran needs serious reforms in economic, political and social aspects. Improving the necessary framework and removing legal and bureaucratic obstacles can help increase investment density and economic growth. But first of all, it is necessary to identify the existing challenges and obstacles and examine and research them from different perspectives. Therefore, this article addresses the issue of "". In this article, which was conducted using a descriptive-analytical method and using library resources and texts, the following results were obtained: domestic and foreign investment requires the presence of necessary requirements and the absence of obstacles. The legal obstacles and prohibitions that were selected and examined as the subject of this article have played a significant role in Iran's failure to attract and support investment. The pathology analysis carried out indicates that various legal and non-legal obstacles and challenges are conceivable in this regard. This article addresses three of the most important of these challenges. Of course, it should be kept in mind that it is not possible to enumerate all the challenges in different dimensions in one article, and certainly more challenges and obstacles are conceivable in this field. Supporting domestic and foreign investment in Iran is of great importance for several reasons, but at the same time it faces many challenges and obstacles. To attract and support domestic and foreign investment, Iran needs serious reforms in economic, political and social aspects. Improving the necessary framework and removing legal and bureaucratic obstacles can help increase investment density and economic growth. But first of all, it is necessary to identify the existing challenges and obstacles and examine and research them from different perspectives. Therefore, this article addresses the issue of "". In this article, which was conducted using a descriptive-analytical method and using library resources and texts, the following results were obtained: domestic and foreign investment requires the presence of necessary requirements and the absence of obstacles. The legal obstacles and prohibitions that were selected and examined as the subject of this article have played a significant role in Iran's failure to attract and support investment. The pathology analysis carried out indicates that various legal and non-legal obstacles and challenges are conceivable in this regard. This article addresses three of the most important of these challenges. Of course, it should be kept in mind that it is not possible to enumerate all the challenges in different dimensions in one article, and certainly more challenges and obstacles are conceivable in this field. https://www.iisajournals.ir/article_224148_d2c138403e09bc1a6ff22c9932ee2ba7.pdf