Economics Research

Abstract This study has investigated the major barriers of Foreign Investment in Iran from the investor's viewpoints. In this study, we followed all of the foreign investors that recoursed to the investment organization in a period of three months. 150 questionnaires (including Doing Business Index) were sent via Email, fax and face to face interview, but only 35 questionnaires were returned. Data analysis has been done by use of inferential statistics and SPSS software. We found that: There is significant relationship between index of starting a business, dealing with licenses, employing workers, registering property, protecting Investors, paying taxes, trading across borders, enforcing contracts, closing a business and Foreign Investment. but there is no meaningful relationship, between index of bank getting credit and Foreign Investment.