A Survey on the provisions of bilateral investment treaties of Islamic republic of Iran

Nowadays foreign direct investment is a requirement for development of economies especially for developing countries. For this reason governments often compete with each other in order to absorb more foreign capital. Bilateral investment treaties ratification is one of absorbing foreign capital tools which give suitable assurances and incentives to foreign investors against common risks threatening their investment such as discrimination and expropriation and etc. recently Islamic republic of Iran has ratified more than 60 bilateral investment treaties with different countries. In this research provisions of bilateral investment treaties of Iran with other countries has been studied and it is concluded that how they are reasonable and suitable with respect to different countries and the goal of investment absorbing.