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TEHRAN, August 29 - Head of Iran’s Organization for Investment, Economic and Technical Assistance Mohammad Khazaei said the country is going to finalize securing $30 billion contracts next month.
TEHRAN, Young Journalists Club (YJC) - “These finances do not put Iran in debt, but they will help the economy, and Iran’s plans and projects will benefit from the funds,” he said.
He made the remarks after an article in Iranian daily Kayhan criticized pro-government media for celebrating the country’s biggest credit line deal in recent years with South Korea’s Eximbank, contending that it would only bring about financial liability for the country.
Khazaei noted that international financial standards must be applied in the banking system and made transparent, “because without interacting with other banks, there can be no communication or transfer of resources.”
Foreign banks have been skittish about carrying out Iran-related transactions despite a nuclear accord which lifted most sanctions on the country early last year.
While remaining US sanctions are mostly blamed for frightening away trade partners, other people say systematic problems plaguing Iran’s banking system provide the added drawback.
The Iranian government plans to attract $65 billion of foreign investment during the sixth five-year development plan (2016-21), of which $30 billion is about to come in finance, $20 billion in economic partnership and $15 billion in direct investment.
Iran secured its first credit line of $10 billion from China in 2015, while Austrian Finance Minister Hans Jörg Schelling said during a visit to Tehran that his country had allocated a credit line of €1 billion for a major steel production project in southern Iran.
And on Friday, Iranian banks signed a framework agreement with Korea Eximbank, under which the Korean side will provide an 8 billion euro ($9.4 billion) loan to finance various projects by South Korean companies in Iran.
“The 8 billion euro finance by the Koreans will break a big barrier. Those banks that were afraid of cooperating with Iran can now finance Iranian projects,” the state news agency IRNA said on Saturday.
“It is expected that after the Korean banks, Japanese banks and later European banks will be more comfortable working with Iran,” it added.
Governor of Central Bank Valiollah Seif said the loan was a sign of “return of global trust in Iran’s banking system.”
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