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Iranian Diaspora Cooperation & Development Council

Home of the Iranian diaspora

The Iranian Diaspora Cooperation & Development Council serves people of Iranian heritage outside Iran: long-settled communities, people born abroad, recent arrivals and people in transit. It offers country programmes, the Academy, heritage resources and protected participation under one charter.

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Country programmes
49
City pages
69
Languages
19
Charter version
1.0.0.1
Where the community lives

Born in Iran (stock), 2024

Circle area shows the figure. Figures of different measures are never added together.

Sources UN DESA International Migrant Stock 2024 Verified

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Born in Iran (stock), 2024

Circle area shows the figure. Figures of different measures are never added together.

Sources UN DESA International Migrant Stock 2024 Verified

CountryFigureSource
United States431,405Verified
Germany283,454Verified
Canada205,304Verified
Türkiye199,735Verified
United Kingdom124,200Verified
Australia88,697Verified
Israel61,572Verified
Austria29,559Verified
Italy23,973Verified
Switzerland17,038Verified
Belgium15,212Verified
Iraq14,747Verified
Finland8,959Verified
Armenia6,793Verified
New Zealand5,632Verified
Greece4,976Verified
Hungary4,866Verified
Kazakhstan3,012Verified
Pakistan2,148Verified
China1,331Verified
Brazil815Verified
Azerbaijan710Verified
South Africa499Verified
Mexico401Verified
Malaysia358 (community claims higher)Verified
Argentina227Verified
Georgia124 (likely undercount)Verified
Venezuela80Verified
AfghanistanNo figure for this measure
BahrainNo figure for this measure
CyprusNo figure for this measure
DenmarkNo figure for this measure
EgyptNo figure for this measure
FranceNo figure for this measure
IndiaNo figure for this measure
JapanNo figure for this measure
KenyaNo figure for this measure
KuwaitNo figure for this measure
NetherlandsNo figure for this measure
NigeriaNo figure for this measure
NorwayNo figure for this measure
OmanNo figure for this measure
QatarNo figure for this measure
RussiaNo figure for this measure
SpainNo figure for this measure
SwedenNo figure for this measure
TajikistanNo figure for this measure
TanzaniaNo figure for this measure
United Arab EmiratesNo figure for this measure

Participation is designed so that it does not expose members or their families. Protected participation

01Now

Next in the calendar

  1. SadehJanuaryFestival
  2. PS752 remembranceJanuary 8Remembrance
  3. NowruzMarchFestival
  4. Sizdah BedarAprilFestival
  5. RidvanAprilReligious
  6. TirganJulyFestival
  7. Woman, Life, Freedom anniversarySeptember 16Remembrance
  8. MehreganOctoberFestival
  9. Yalda (Shab-e Chelleh)DecemberFestival
  10. Chaharshanbe Surieve of the last Wednesday before NowruzFestival
  11. Ramadan and Eid al-Fitr1 ShawwalReligious
  12. Muharram and Ashura10 MuharramReligious
  13. Eid al-Adha (Eid-e Qorban)10 Dhu al-HijjahReligious

Calendar

Forming

02Start here

03Who we serve

The Council serves Iranian diaspora communities worldwide, of every language, ethnicity, faith and generation. Belonging rests on self-identification.

  • 01

    Iranian diaspora communities worldwide

  • 02

    Persianate cultural kin (Afghans, Tajiks, Parsis and Iranis of India, Ajam of the Gulf), as partners

04Areas

Eight service sites, each built around one need.

  • 01

    Academy

    Faculties, disciplines, courses and communities of practice, from Persian studies to public health.

  • 02

    Heritage

    History from Elam to today, the calendar, faiths, arts, literature and food.

  • 03

    Language

    Persian and the languages of Iran, scripts and teaching resources.

  • 04

    Research

    The diaspora observatory, reading lists and live research.

  • 05

    Opportunities

    Jobs, mentoring, scholarships and enterprise.

  • 06

    Civic

    Civic education, rights literacy, dialogue and newcomer guides.

  • 07

    Development

    Social and economic development: Chapters, generations, enterprise and preparedness.

  • 08

    News and events

    News from many outlets, each labelled by owner, and the community calendar.

05The Academy

Faculties, departments, disciplines and courses. Every outline is a draft until it is reviewed.

  • Planned88
  • Outline drafted12
  • Wave 112
  • Wave 248
  • Wave 340

Featured course

Persian script and reading (ZWNJ, nasta’liq)

Reading and writing the Persian script, from letter shapes to the half-space and nasta’liq.

Outline draftedFoundationsWave 120 h

Persian (Farsi)South Azerbaijani (Azerbaijani Turkish)GilakiMazandaraniLuri and BakhtiariBalochiArmenian (Iranian Armenian)Assyrian Neo-Aramaic (Urmia)Judeo-PersianDariTajik

06Languages and scripts

Every language the community speaks, with its script and how well technology supports it.

  • At launch2
  • Phase 24
  • By demand19

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07Where the community lives

Where the community livesCountries are shaded by programme status, not by population. Cities are marked only at city level.

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Layers

Places on this map (69)

Map: OpenFreeMap, OpenMapTiles, data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Boundaries: Natural Earth. Places: the platform’s own pages.

  • Country hub
  • Country page
  • By demand

Countries are shaded by programme status, not by population. Cities are marked only at city level.

  • Country programmes

    49
    • Country hub10
    • Country page15
    • Country page by demand24
    • Europe16
    • Middle East8
    • Africa5
    • Asia4
    • Asia-Pacific4
    • Latin America4
    • Caucasus3
    • Central Asia2
    • North America2
    • Europe and Central Asia1

Country programmes

All 49 country programmes

08Research and open science

Every figure keeps its measure, year, source and label. Unknown is shown as unknown.

Reading list

How statistics see the community

09Commitments

The Council is a federation of Chapters (host-country and sub-national community cells) and communities of practice, which the charter calls Colleges. One method holds it together: integrity-first governance, protected participation and peer review.

  1. 1

    Independent of every government, party, faction, donor bloc and religious authority

  2. 2

    Non-partisan: no campaigning and no endorsements

  3. 3

    Plural: unity without uniformity

  4. 4

    Evidence first, with corrections made in public

  5. 5

    Protected participation for every member

How the federation works Charter

10Protected participation

Transnational repression against Iranians abroad is documented by host-country authorities and human rights organisations. The site is designed so that taking part does not expose members or their families.

What we never do

  • Ask for your password or sign-in code by email, phone or message
  • Send sign-in links by email
  • Sell, share or publish member data
  • Post a list of members or attendees
  • Contact your family

What we do

  • Let you join under a pseudonym
  • Keep profiles, group memberships and course enrolments private by default
  • Make every sensitive field optional and never public: ethnicity, faith, home town, political views

Protected participation

11Ways to take part

The Council grows through its members, one country, one city and one field at a time.

  • 01

    Join

    Create a private member profile. Every sensitive field is optional.

  • 02

    Start or join a country programme

    Help form your country’s Chapter and the cell in your city.

  • 03

    Join a community of practice

    Bring your professional field to the Academy: standards, toolkits and curricula.

  • 04

    Teach

    Teach at a Persian Saturday school or write a course.

  • 05

    Mentor

    Help newcomers and young Iranians into work and study.

  • 06

    Record history

    Record family and community history with consent.

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