{"id":21212,"date":"2014-11-03T04:31:14","date_gmt":"2014-11-03T03:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/?p=21212"},"modified":"2014-11-03T04:31:33","modified_gmt":"2014-11-03T03:31:33","slug":"21212","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/21212\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking Forward to the End of Sanctions in Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"

The prospects of sanctions against Iran ending and the opening up of that market are enticing to entrepreneurs and business people the world over.\u00a0 Familiar faces are returning to the country.\u00a0 Peugeot, which once had 20% of the car market, is coming back.<\/p>\n

Sanctions have depressed the GDP by 25% in the last three years. Iran has $1.8 billion in purchasing power and is by that measure 18 on the world list.\u00a0 The population is well-educated.\u00a0 Its oil and gas reserves are huge.<\/p>\n

The Teheran stock exchange is seond biggest in the Middle East.\u00a0 Turkey’s stock exchange is 50% owned by foreigners; Iran’s 0.1%.<\/p>\n

Among attractive investments for foreigners are manufacturing and retail.\u00a0 The country has a need also for bankers.<\/p>\n

Iran’s oil reserves are the world’s largest and yet it has only 1% of the world market.<\/p>\n

At first, entreprise in Iran will be cramped by their limited capacity to handle foreign capital.\u00a0 Privitization and economic reforms have to happen.\u00a0 Many important areas of the economy are controlled by the Revoutionary Guard, part army and part intelligency agency.\u00a0 Its presence has been expanded in business over the past several years.<\/p>\n

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