Challenges of Iran's Legislative Criminal Policy in Criminally Support of Foreign Investment

Attracting foreign investment is one of the most important requirements for economic growth and development, which has been seriously considered by various countries in the past decades. One of the most important platforms for attracting foreign investment is the existence of an efficient legal system. Legal criminal policy plays an important role in this regard. The descriptive-analytical study of Iran's legislative criminal policy approach to foreign investment shows that despite the requirements related to foreign investment in jurisprudential texts and doctrines (including the rules of negation of difficulty and harm, the sanctity of contributing to sin and harmlessness), in The aforementioned criminal policy, challenges and shortcomings are visible in order to criminally support foreign investment. Challenges such as criminal populism, criminal managementism and securityism and shortcomings such as the lack of comprehensive criminal protection of intellectual property rights standards, lack of stability in the relevant laws and also the lack of coherent criminal policy, each of which in a way, the effectiveness of the current legislative criminal policy system. In order to support foreign investment, they have faced serious doubts. It seems that the approval of a comprehensive law regarding foreign investment and avoiding the adoption of procedures based on scattered legislation in connection with this issue is the first and necessary step in solving the mentioned problems.