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hello, dear compatriots, welcome to the program on the first page. according to the routine , tonight, another servant of the iranian nation will appear in front of the camera to talk about policies, strategies and of course decisions that will advance the country, especially in the field of economy. effective yes, mr. dr. hojatullah abdul maliki, secretary of the supreme council of free and special economic zones, welcome to the program on the first page, in the name of allah, the most merciful, to you and all the dear people of iran. god willing, we hope that the palestinian people will get their rights as soon as possible. one of the most important issues in the area of ​​free zones

is that there should be a basis for foreign investment in it since you take the helm of these zones. how was the situation? look at the regions we present free and special economic iran as an investment paradise in various events that are regularly held abroad and we are present, this element of investment paradise has found its place and is favored by economic officials other countries and foreign investors are actually located in the investment paradise that we say is actually due to the fact that there are five simultaneous features in iran's free and special economic zones, which are rarely found in any other place in the world. the first is the low cost of production, the second is the infrastructure

it is desirable that there is in these areas, the third is the good access they have to the market , these areas are the domestic market, the market of the neighboring countries, and the global markets . it is better than many countries in the world and the fifth tax exemptions and customs exemptions that actually exist in these areas , we can find these five features together in very few places in the world . we found a place in the world where all five of them have these together ok, and for this reason, we say that these 48 azadi regions, which are active in some way , have these characteristics, and therefore they are paradise for investment. in order to get to know this paradise better, i also told you in the previous program . we have prepared investment packages that include an initial feasibility study for each project, water and electricity

, land and infrastructure facilities for each project, in addition to an anonymous license that has actually been issued for each project, which is now 85 from these packages worth about 655 thousand billion tomans or around 15 billion euros in these so-called areas in the free and special zones are being prepared and placed at the disposal of domestic and foreign investors . investing in free zones is better when he knows that there is no problem in getting permission to get land and the like. the work has been done before . i am more interested. it has been a year and almost 67 days since my presence from the beginning of the year until now, we actually

had a demand for investment from foreign investors in free and special economic zones , although this number will increase by the end of the year . we have the so-called 6-month statistics in terms of the demand for investment in the series of exhibition events that we held in the country from the beginning of this year to the end of september. one thousand billion tomans, the width of their amount is the same as the width. it was a billion euros that if we want these in terms of the official dollar price of the central bank, which is 40 thousand tomans, it can be said that there are more than 20 thousand billion tomans of requests and investment agreements, which

were actually concluded in these 6 events from the beginning of the year to the end of september, except for this. 1,280 investment requests directly to the regions , in fact, applying for registration from outside the borders or domestically , these are generally inside the country, but there are also some outside the country, so to speak. in this way, we can say that from the beginning this year, so far, until the end of september, these are the statistics, and i am sharing the statistics of mehr and aban, after summarizing the service of our people, in fact, more than 1,400, more than 1,400 projects and memorandums of understanding have been requested and signed.

with a capital value of around 41 thousand billion tomans, well, this is a very high number , in fact, i will give you a statistic . 50 thousand billion tomans have been put into operation in the first 6 months of the year in these areas only in the free zones we do not include the special zones in this statistic. it is a project that has actually been put into operation . alhamdulillah, the success of investing in free and special economic zones is increasing exponentially . dear doctor, we have prepared a report on this issue of investing in the zones. azad , we will see this report and then we will talk about some of the issues raised in this report. these areas will become an investment paradise. development of investment in free zones according to their special position in the region and turning them into

tourist hubs is one of the goals of creating these zones. here kish free zone is an island with investment capacity and conditions in the heart of kharij fars, with special laws and taxes that increase the attractiveness of investment. every year between 7 and 10% of the country's foreign investment is formed in free zones . the national development fund and the ministry cultural heritage and tourism by signing a memorandum of understanding of 20 thousand billion rials of credit for the development of tourism infrastructure, allocating the credit that was allocated in the implementation of the budget law of 1400 and was extended in the following years. we also provide them with money in addition to the conditions that exist in the free zones due to the limitations of the construction periods and the like, it is being considered specially for tourism projects, those periods are increasing

. the government board has also facilitated the receipt of bank loans in the free zones, all the loans to the units. economically active in the mainland will be given to units active in free zones. honoring investors and facilitating the investment process is one of the ways of economic development of these regions. fund raising should be rolled out with a red carpet , no obstacles should be created for him, he should feel that the whole system is behind him. according to development experts investing in free areas, including in this island , will boost employment and expand tourism infrastructure. nasreen bechor khabari sedav cima, kish island. dear doctor, what are the areas in which there is more desire to invest? see, it is completely scattered. the reason is that

we have free or special economic zones in most of the country's provinces, and these zones have different natural and economic advantages. in the field of logistics , we also have plans for the construction of warehouses and wharfs in the field of industry, the most important industry is the automobile sector and the petrochemical industry. clothing industry, food industry and the rest of the industry, we have the electronic industry in the field of tourism, comparatively, in the field of hotels , we have so-called entertainment centers, in the field of business centers, and in the field of trade, we have a lot of greenhouses, because some of our areas are very susceptible , now our wedding free zone is in it can be said that the hub of the greenhouse industry in this region is in iran and neighboring countries, and in this way the projects are completely diverse. by the way , the investment packages that we have prepared, these 850 packages

, are also extremely diverse in terms of subject matter. all these sectors are from tourism and information technology and it includes industry, agriculture and various service areas in terms of the amount of capital, which starts from 3-4 billion tomans for the projects in these packages to 10-15 thousand billion tomans for larger projects, in fact, this climate diversity and economic diversity it has caused us to say that the dear investors who come with almost any taste can find the package they want in this basket . mostly the same countries and now in addition to china

it is a more distant country, we had many requests from russia, we had many requests from afghanistan, we had many requests from iraq , kurdistan, iraq, we had from armenia, in fact , we had requests from russia, as i mentioned, we had requests from qatar , we had requests from the uae, especially those countries with which we import we negotiated or held an event or an exhibition there. they actually show more interest because they are familiar with us . the most important problem we have in the area of ​​this investment paradise, the free and special economic zone, is that we did not introduce it. we in these exhibitions abroad, since the beginning of the year, we have had 8 events, 3 inside iran and 5 outside iran. there are those countries, and with the help of the embassies of the islamic republic of iran in those countries and the representatives of the broadcasting organization

in those countries, in those days when we are in the free and special economic zones of iran, they will give us one of the most important economic news. those countries become constantly in the so-called conversation-oriented programs their news and this makes many of these things actually familiar. we actually entered into a very serious round to introduce iran's free economic zones , as well as investment . in the long term, this will actually happen, that is, we expect to have a much higher volume of demand for investment in the free and special economic zone of iran in the coming months and especially in the next year, mr. doctor, when talking about free trade zones it can be done in the country because it is older in general, the minds go to it, but you just said that even ars

exists from the southernmost region to the northernmost region, and in recent days, two free trade zones in kurdistan and gorgan have fallen. what is the economy for the people of that area? i would like to use this opportunity to congratulate the dear people of kurdistan and golestan provinces on the establishment of two new free zones, which are the 9th and 10th free zones of the islamic republic of iran. secondly , i would like to congratulate all iranian people for this regions are national regions. we always say that it is true that a free region or a special region is located within the boundaries of a city or several cities, and it is true that the benefits of these regions should first reach the people of that province and those cities, but

these regions they are national and they are supposed to be platforms for the development of the economy at the national level, so the approach of the officials of those regions and the officials of those provinces must be the approach of the country, but the officials at the national level, including the ministers , have a special view on these areas. alhamdulillah. after years and anyway the follow-up that had happened baneh and marivan azad region in kurdistan started its work and we were present and introduced the general manager who officially started his work . also, in golestan province , he was also assigned the general manager within the last two weeks and his work is indeed strong. alhamdulillah and it has started with strength. it is interesting that these areas that i mentioned took action before they were launched , their executive directors provided investment packages , which of course are not included in our 85 package statistics, but

they prepared them themselves before they started their work. and the customs was established and they started building entering the investment phase, this is really a matter of congratulations, naturally, especially in these two special points , we expect a serious development in investment, especially trade, in the kurdistan free zone of baneh and marivan in two separate areas, in fact, which is paired with there is also a free zone formed on our two very important borders and on our two important crossings in the bas pass and in the siran pass , which are closed to most of the people of iran. it is better every year according to the statistics that our loved ones are in the same border giving about 6 billion euros of goods from the border, we only travel and enter and exit, when we

started there , it is actually a large volume of demand and demand from the businessmen and investors of iraqi kurdistan . as soon as we are ready, the land will be allocated to us for the investment of the businessmen of iraqi kurdistan for two reasons . many of them have goods both from iran and from other countries through iran they import that they are interested in expressing these things in the free zone of bane brivan , actually process and produce there, for example , bring the parts there , establish the last link of the value chain there, produce there, and then import them into their own land. the next thing is that in recent years

iraqi kurdistan is becoming an important commercial center in the region with the support of the islamic republic of iran . that iranian products go there from there it can be explained that it will actually be transferred to other countries. for these two reasons, the businessmen and investors of iraqi kurdistan are very willing to make many requests to invest in that border , within the border and in golestan province, where the border is actually with the country. turkmenistan too, well, we have a very great logistical necessity. the country of turkmenistan has to declare settlement so that their transportation lines to the destination , in fact, the free zone , will be developed. again, with the help of iranian contractors, which means

create a new source for iran's economy in that direction and move the free zone to one of the main export hubs of the country. well, there is actually a very good logistics center that will be set up in the railway company, ministry of allah and shahrarsi. they are helping us, they are actively participating, many investors are also there to announce the arrival of these two points , which are added to our previous 8 points, as a free zone, god willing, a very good effect on the economic prosperity of these two areas. and they will have two provinces and the economy of the whole country. excellency dr. less. great economic activity can happen without people. it should be effective in the national production of the country and it should be universal. in the field of investment in free zones or commercial zones, free commercial zones or

special zones. because people to participate now , either small or medium capital, now large, which has its own place, have you devised a policy in this field or not? see, in general, we have many small businesses in free zones, we have more than 100,000 small businesses in the free and special zones, of which there are 2,500 medium to high-level businesses. but, of course, these 2,500 are very high because they are large companies and companies with relatively high production and export volumes, while in fact, for example, we are limited in the azadi region. we have a good population concentration, such as arvand, which is the city of khorram, shahrhar abadan, or chabahar, which is the city of chabahar, or the mako free zone, where the three cities

are actually at the intersection, or the ars free zone, where we actually have the city of jolfa there, while we encourage we follow the facts of small businesses and programs for employment in those areas, and by facilitating business, we can even improve the conditions. what we are doing with these are the public flows of the people. in the understanding we recently made with the stock exchange organization, a committee is actually being formed to convert large projects and securities that people can buy with little capital. let them say that we are doing this planning, as i said , the projects that we are investing in are 15 big projects worth 10 thousand billion tomans. the agreement we made with the chairman of the stock exchange organization was that this joint committee should plan for various methods of offering these projects.

in the capital market, including the creation of a project company, the creation of a project fund, and other methods of converting assets into securities, so-called with the cooperation of large investors, that is, investment that takes 20-30% of the project as a guarantor, and provides the necessary guarantees. the stock exchange organization can pay and transfer and do the rest through the capital market under the supervision of the free zone and under the supervision of the collective stock exchange organization. this work is actually going on . through us, we can do a lot, god willing let's turn people's small capitals into productive projects. i would also like to say that in these investment packages that we have prepared , we have different rates of return, sometimes very good and high, that is, from the return of 203, the same ir is the internal rate of return or

our conventional profit rate that we are saying starts from 200, some packages even reach up to 50 , 55 or 600. invest in the projects, then they can have a good profit in the coming years, god willing. banking system too in order to create the necessary guarantees, including refah bank , with whom we had negotiations, they were at the forefront of this matter, god willing. three or four of our free trade zones are in the coastal areas, starting from the easternmost, for example, chabahar qeshm, then kish in the south, and then how

is the situation according to the policies announced by the supreme leader of the islamic revolution in the area, in fact, the sea axis? is it with this policy ? announcements of free trade zones, and you, as the one who is at the helm of these areas , will make a new plan or go according to the previous procedure, which means that the amount of investment will change towards the sea axis, yes, see as you said, our five regions are the target of sea-oriented development policies. this is really a great help for us. these policies that were announced from here actually draw more attention to the sea area and are the best places for investment.

the center of the sea is the free and special areas, which are actually the seas of the north caspian sea, the persian gulf, the sea of ​​oman , and the indian ocean. in fact, the institutions in charge of the ministries that are in charge of affairs, this is a new opportunity for us it is considered one of the economic packages that we have prepared, a large number of them are related to the sea area, for example, investment packages in the area of ​​dock construction, we have warehouse construction in poskarane, in fact , we have floating production units, which are relatively good and profitable, entertainment units marine units and projects that are related to sea transit, manufacturing marine products , sea-based knowledge units, these are the things that we have included in our package in the past. now, with a new emphasis, which is actually a set of involvement of the system. in the field of

sea-oriented development, firstly, we expect that it is easier to leave our sea-oriented packages to investors , and secondly, we know that it is our duty to strengthen sea-oriented projects. these projects are divided into two categories: infrastructure and infrastructure projects, and economic projects in the field of infrastructure well, you know that we in the free zones are really one of the parts of the country's economy where most of our budget is spent on infrastructure. 75, the budget of free zones is spent on infrastructure, and the secret of the success of these zones and the fact that we call them this is investment in one way. well, we are in the budget in 1403 we will have a new plan for the new year. we definitely emphasize and try to be able to implement projects that are infrastructure projects that lead to the creation of new situations in the field of marine industries and

sea-based economy. focus. we should have more and strengthen the investment packages that are suitable for the sea area. one of the things we are doing is developing cooperation with neighboring countries . well, oman has very high sea conditions, we are trying to ship lines let's set up an iranian between the free zones of iran and those areas where one of its countries is actually reaching the final stage, which we will share the news of . we will also do this in the persian gulf or oman sea. yes, for the past few months, our bunkering has been in qeshm island near the strait of hormuz, and the traffic area of ​​thousands of ships has been activated every year, and

now there are more than 20,000 tons of fuel per month. we are increasing bankring and refueling capacity again what is emphasized in the general sea-oriented policies, which involves all parts of the system, including the islamic council of the government, and in fact the other elements of the system , will automatically create a new position for the free and special economic zones that are on the margins . the seas are real. i think that god willing, with this incident and the facilitations that the system will do in the continuation of these sea-oriented development policies, we will have more prosperity in our free sea areas and our sea-oriented areas on the edge of our sea. let me tell you this point , within the last two or three months, there is a new free zone

it was approved by the islamic council and the honorable chairman of the parliament told the government, in fact, mr. president , to notify us of the free zone of du gharon and mazandaran, which were all three special zones before they became free zones . in the supreme supervisory board, in fact, a meeting was held under the chairmanship of the head of the nizam, which is in the tishmat nizam assembly , in connection with the mazandaran region . well, there were discussions and complications. the sea-oriented policy had not been announced, but the assembly was involved in this matter we know that the caspian sea is a very blessed sea and it is very valuable. we only have an anzali free zone in the northwest corner, while we have about 700 km of the northern coastal strip in the caspian sea. if we can, on the east side in the center

and east of the caspian sea to have free areas , it will be very welcomed by the countries on the shores of the caspian sea, including the days when, with the same reasoning, the friends of the high supervisory bodies were persuaded and voted to actually approve this resolution of the parliament, and alhamdulillah, the region of mazandaran province as well. he became the owner of a free zone with 3 separate zones in the port nowshahr, bandar chepek, chepkrod, and amirabad bandar, well, here is a place for congratulations for the dear people of mazandan and, accordingly, the dear people of iran, because these are my regions, i emphasize that i am national, and with that in mind, we also have very good capacities in terms of infrastructure. there are free and special areas on the edge of the sea in terms of the software that the general policies of sea-oriented development provide for more exploitation of this divine gift of the sea.