Abstract-Automatic recognition of handwritten numerals has been widely proposed in various languages. However, some languages such as Persian still need more consideration. In this paper, we proposed a handwritten Persian numerals dataset, which is gathered from people with different range of educational level. Thus, it is more general than other similar Persian datasets. Additionally, a method to classify Persian handwritten numerals is presented, which uses simple geometrical features based on their shapes, and classifies them via a rule-based decision tree classifier. Compared to other similar methods, our proposed method has the advantages of high speed running, employing too few and simple features, and elimination of training phase.