Insurance Coverage of Currency-Related Political Risks in Foreign Direct Investment with a view to Iran's Approach

Political risks are an important obstacle in the way of foreign investment and currency-related risks are one of the most important of these risks. Inconvertibility, non-transferability and exchange rate fluctuations are events that may severely affect the interests of foreign investors. Insurance coverage of these risks is a way to manage them and encourage foreign investors. The purpose of writing this article is to examine the possibility of insurance coverage of these risks and Iran's approach in this regard. Currency inconvertibility and non-transferability risks are among the risks covered by political risk insurance, but the risk of exchange rate fluctuations can hardly be considered as insurable risks. Based on this, the regulation called Regulation No. 70 regarding insurance coverage of exchange rate fluctuations by insurance companies has not been very successful Although it is over a decade that the exchange rate risk insurance has been posed in our legal system, it’s coverage in the form of regular insurance by insurance companies seems hard to accept due to the nature of this risk. Indeed, management of the risk by derivatives trough Strengthen required infrastructure or coverage of Export Guarantee Fund seems more procurable and homogeneous with global approach in this regards. In this essay, relying on the library method and with a descriptive and practical approach, an attempt has been made to delineate the concepts, introduce and explain the subject, especially with regard to the novelty of political risk insurance in the Iranian legal system.