While the risk of doing business with Iran has increased since the election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the imposition of UN Security Council-mandated sanctions, many international corporations, banking institutions, and state-run export agencies have continued investing in the Islamic Republic. Western governments have denounced Tehran’s nuclear ambitions and sponsorship of terrorism, but apart from the U.S. government, most have done little to limit investment or curtail taxpayer-funded export credits for business with Iran.

Why, in spite of its defiance of the UN and its continued support for terror, does Iran remain an attractive financial and commercial partner? Are Iran’s extensive financial ties with the outside world a potential source of leverage with the regime? Who is investing? And how much?

Please join us as we unveil a new interactive project, Global Investment in the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Speakers at this AEI event will include Patrick Clawson, deputy director of research of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy; A. William Samii, adjunct research analyst at the Center for Naval Analyses; and Danielle Pletka, vice president for defense and foreign policy studies at AEI. Omeed Jafari, a research associate at AEI, will moderate.