Iran's finance and economic affairs ministry has said it plans to facilitate regulations for foreign investments, Mehr news agency has reported. "According to that (regulations), the small-scale (foreign) investors can easily take their capital out of the country and the large-scale investors, which possess 10% of the agency's value or 10% of the management position, can take their capital out of the country after two years upon receiving permission (from the government)," minister Seyyed Shamseddin Hosseini told a conference of the annual World Investment Report (WIR) by the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). In 2009, Iran attracted some $3bn in foreign investments, an 86 increase year-on-year, the minister noted.