Bigdeli made the remarks in a meeting with a group of Turkish businessmen in Ankara on Thursday.
“The grounds are well prepared for Turkish businessmen to invest in Iran’s projects,” the Iranian envoy to Ankara said.
“Industrial cities such as Tehran, Zanjan, Tabriz and Isfahan welcome Turkish investors for direct or indirect investments there,” Bigdeli added.
During the meeting, the two sides exchanged views on new areas of economic cooperation between the two countries.
According to a recent report by Turkey’s statistics center, the value of trade balance between Tehran and Ankara reached $2.372bln in the first two months of 2013.
In January and February, Turkish exports to Iran rose by 4.3 percent while the imports registered 8.1 percent decline.
Earlier this month, Turkey’s Minister of Development Cevdet Yilmaz voiced Ankara’s willingness to boost trade and economic relations with Tehran, and called for stronger efforts by both sides’ officials to expand economic and trade ties between the two neighboring nations.
The Turkish Minister of Development made the remarks in a meeting with Bigdeli.
Yilmaz called on the two countries’ officials to do their best to increase the trade exchanges between Iran and Turkey.
Meantime, he noted that the value of Iran-Turkey annual trade exchanges should be increased to $35bln.
Iran and Turkey have recently expanded their bilateral relations, especially in trade and energy fields. Trade between Turkey and Iran has risen sharply over the past decade.
Iran-Turkey trade value exceeded $22bln in 2012.
Also, Turkey was Iran’s fifth-largest oil customer in 2011, buying around 200,000 barrels per day, 30 percent of its total imports and more than 7 percent of Iran’s oil exports.
The two countries officials stressed the necessity for stronger relations and pursuing the planned increase of mutual trade to $30bln by 2015.