Identifying and ranking the effective political factors on foreign investment in Iran based on the General Policies of country in economic security

The aim of this research is identifying and ranking the effective political factors on foreign investment in Iran. Research method includes two qualitative and quantitative approaches. In the first stage, political factors have been identified with the meta-synthesis method. The second stage employs the fuzzy TOPSIS method. The data was collected by a questionnaire containing two categories of positive and negative political factors, which affects the foreign investment in Iran, and was given to 32 experts in this field. Research findings show that the positive political factors ranked as follows, political stability with a weight of 0.6564, investment security with a weight of 0.6403, and good governance with a weight of 0.5143. The negative political facers ranked as follows, international sanctions with a weight of 0.6752 at first place, Instability and high political risk with a weight of 0.5970 ranked second and investment insecurity with a weight of 0.5788 ranked at third.