About Dual Persian

Why we exist

Around the world there are roughly four million Iranians living outside Iran. Some left as children, some as parents, some only know the homeland through stories and Nowruz tables their grandparents set every spring. Many have built remarkable lives in their new cities, but a quiet thread runs through almost every diaspora story: the question of where you actually belong, and the search for people who understand that question without having to ask it.

Dual Persian is built for that thread. It's a place to find your people, whether you're looking for another single Iranian who shares your values, a parent figuring out how to raise their kids bilingually, a couple looking for other couples to share a Friday night dinner with, or just someone who wants to argue about the right amount of saffron in tahdig.

We started with the simplest goal: build the home of the Iranian diaspora online, properly. Not a single-use app, not a forum lost in someone's subreddit, not a Telegram channel that gets buried. A real, welcoming, well-built community that respects who we are and where we come from.

The name

Dual is the dual identity almost every diaspora Iranian carries: Persian heritage on one side, the country and culture you grew up in on the other. Tehrangeles. Persian-Canadian. British-Iranian. Iranian-Australian. Two homes, never quite one or the other. Dual Persian is built for that in-between, and gives it a name worth living up to.

The structure

Dual Persian is split into two distinct experiences under one umbrella:

Dual Persian Community

Forums, events, parenting resources and culture for Iranians worldwide. This is the heart of Dual Persian, somewhere to ask, share, debate, organise meet-ups, post recipes, pass on Farsi children's books, and find your people. Inside the community there are two dedicated sub-communities:

• Dual Persian Mums, a space for Persian parents raising bicultural children in the diaspora. Language, tradition, schooling, identity, and the everyday practicalities of doing this far from a grandparent's house.
• Dual Persian Couples, for Persian couples meeting other Persian couples for friendship, dinners, weekends away, and relationships that get richer when both halves share culture and language.

Dual Persian Dating

A separate, deliberately distinct space for Persian singles. Different sign-up, different account, different rules. The dating side is intentionally walled off from the community side so members of one never accidentally surface in the other. Mums in the parenting forum will never be matched in Dating. Couples meeting other couples won't see dating profiles. Privacy by design.

The umbrella is simple: community is the front door, and dating is its own private wing. Each has its own subdomain, and you can move between them whenever you want.

What you can do here

• Join the community. Post in forums, RSVP to local events, share recipes, ask the kind of questions you can only really ask other Iranians.
• Find a parenting tribe. Real conversations about Farsi at home, Nowruz in primary school, navigating identity, and finding Iranian playgroups wherever you live.
• Meet other couples. Build a single shared profile representing both partners and connect with other Persian couples in your city.
• Date. If you're single, the dating side is its own focused experience. Browse Persian singles, match, message, meet.
• Find your city. We're building presence in London, Los Angeles, Toronto, Vancouver, New York, Stockholm, Hamburg, Berlin, Sydney, Paris, Dubai, Melbourne, Manchester, Houston, Washington DC, and dozens more cities across the diaspora.

What we believe

• Culture is a gift, not a side note. Persian heritage is rich, complicated, and worth a platform of its own.
• Privacy comes first. Your community and dating profiles are kept separate, and we collect as little data as possible. The diaspora is small, and your business is your business.
• Inclusion always. Iranian, Persian, mixed-heritage, raised abroad, fluent or broken Farsi, religious or not, married or single, parent or not, everyone is welcome.
• Real connections over noise. We're not optimising for endless scroll. We're optimising for friendships, marriages, parenting allies, couple friends, dinner invites, and a sense of belonging.
• Built for the long run. A community is a multi-decade project. We're here for it.

Who built this

Dual Persian started as a single project, built by someone who got tired of seeing the Iranian diaspora scattered across abandoned forums, Telegram groups, and dating apps that never quite understood the culture. It's being built carefully, openly, with feedback from real users from the start. If you've got a story, an idea, a complaint, or a feature you want to see, we'd genuinely love to hear it.

Get involved

Sign up wherever feels right. Bring a friend. Post in a forum. RSVP to a Nowruz dinner. Add your partner. Tell us what you wish existed.

Get in touch any time at hello@dualpersian.com, or from the contact page.