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After Fleeing Iran, This Entrepreneur Is Living the American Dream

Since escaping Iran, Nick Nasrollahiis now part-owner of seven Checkers locations.
Nick Nasrollahi fled Iran and is now part-owner of seven Checkers locations.

You never know whom you’ll find behind the counter at Checkers. Take Nick Nasrollahi, a part-owner of seven locations. He fled his home country of Iran in 1985, when he was 18 -- making a seven-day journey across the mountainous desert on foot, by camel and eventually in the back of a sympathetic smuggler’s pickup truck. He almost didn’t make

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