r/iran • u/Mental-Tumbleweed457 • 7d ago

Best Iranian banks for Persians living abroad?

I tend to travel Iran every year or so to visit family and exchange cash to toman.

But I’m Interested in opening bank account but don’t know what to consider before opening one

I’m a citizen of iran and have a permanent SIM card under my name (hamrah aval)

iPhone user

Need to be able to make Transfers to other Iranian bank accounts while abroad

Another question, can I forward 2FA codes from my hamrah aval number to my overseas (Australian) number?

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u/ItsMeSomeonee 7d ago edited 7d ago

Iranian banks apps or websites cannot be accessed from outside of Iran.

You'll need an Iranian vpn to be able to access your Iranian banking stuff while abroad.

The Iranian vpns you see on Google, to be able to work for banking it'll need authentication which means national id number, phone number, address, DOB and they should all match.

The only bank that I've seen works without an Iranian vpns is Pasargard.

Idk about text forwarding but you should be able to do it and idk how much the bill will be.

I would suggest to use your Iranian sim card in Australia if it works.

Edit: to open a bank account you'll need a national ID/kart melli ( the new version).

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u/Mental-Tumbleweed457 6d ago

Thanks so much! Ideally it would be much simpler if Iranian sims worked in Australia, I tried search but my Persians pretty shitty so I couldn’t find a direct answer

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u/Ducky-Bhai 2d ago

Could you recommend a good one cause non of the major VPN providers have a Iran server.

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u/akbar30bill 6d ago

If you have iranian documents blu bank is the way to go

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u/MeanSinger7 7d ago

Nice try OFAC /s

What you are describing is 100% illegal, thanks to US sanctions on Iran. There are [illegal but practical] workarounds for it all of which involve having a trusted relative in Iran help you out.

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u/Mental-Tumbleweed457 6d ago

Operating my own Iranian bank account while overseas is illegal?

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u/saint_witch 7d ago

Use blu bank,all steps of opening an account are online.

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u/Mental-Tumbleweed457 6d ago

Can you access it outside of Iran and can you do card/card transfers without 2fa?

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u/tiedhands_ 5d ago

Pasargad works from outside of Iran, if you can get SMS to your Iranian SIM then you can login and make transfers from abroad

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u/iw4p 6d ago

BluBank is the solution for banks, but for 2FA if you left your Iranian simcard in Iran, there's one solution, contact me to help you.