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Nasser Yarmohammadian, director general of economic and financial affairs for Isfahan province, announced that 10 foreign investment permits valued at $130.395 million won approval from the foreign investment board during the first six months of Iranian year 1405. The projects draw participation from multiple countries while extending across production, energy, services and industry, according to the report carried by Shada. The ministry news agency released the update as provincial authorities track incoming capital commitments.
Investors originate from Afghanistan, the United Arab Emirates, China, Oman and the Netherlands together with Iranians based in Germany, Yarmohammadian stated. The range of nationalities underscores the breadth of interest in the province’s economic opportunities. Such diversity has become a feature of Isfahan’s foreign investment portfolio in recent reporting cycles.
The approved schemes include cotton yarn manufacturing, a solar power station, carpet production, flux agents, steelmaking, flooring lines, a medical clinic, POS infrastructure and both motor and industrial oil facilities, the director general specified. These undertakings concentrate on core industrial and energy segments that provincial planners have prioritized. No per-project financial allocations appeared in the published summary.
The province recorded 24 foreign investment permits worth more than $262.951 million across the entirety of 1404, according to Yarmohammadian’s office. That total reflected growth exceeding 33 percent from the 1403 baseline, the director general noted when reviewing annual performance. The current year’s first-half approvals continue the sequence of expansion visible in earlier statistics.
Borna News reported in September that nine permits valued above $108 million had gained approval in the first five months of 1405, with more than $6 million of that capital already registered as physically transferred. The deputy for economic coordination at the Isfahan governorate supplied those mid-year details. The October disclosure from Yarmohammadian updates the cumulative picture for the full half-year period.
A UNCTAD assessment in its World Investment Report 2026 placed Iran’s national inward foreign direct investment flows at $1.647 billion for 2025, marking a 13.6 percent rise from the prior year. Isfahan’s share of such approvals has grown within the national totals tracked by the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Finance. Provincial updates of this kind form part of the regular data flow published by the ministry’s Shada agency.
