Expediency Council Chairman Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani underlined that the positive effects of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) on attraction of foreign investments in the country.
'From the conditions where all countries were competing with each other to impose sanctions and approve resolutions against Iran, we have reached a situation that they are welcoming investment in Iran,' Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani said in a meeting with the faculty members and managers of the scientific groups of the Center for Research and Higher Education of Iran Management Development here on Monday.
He elaborated on the ups and downs of the first years after the 1979 Islamic Revolution, and said, 'After the war (1980-88 Iran-Iraq war), when we decided to reconstruct the country, the first effective measure was proper management of foreign policy on the basis of détente which paved the way for presence of modern countries in Iran and foreign investment as well as implementation of big projects which were mostly done through financing.'
Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani also reiterated that on the basis of the same détente policy Iran improved its relations with most of the Arab countries that had been stained during the war due to their support for former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.