Do these fast-food places look familiar?

PositionIRAN - Brief article

Iran's hardline clerics may still call the U.S. "the Great Satan," but ordinary Iranians seem to love American fast food. In the capital, Tehran, and other Iranian cities, you can grab lunch at Mash Donald's, Pizza Hat, or Kabooki Fried Chicken, obvious knockoffs of the global American chains. The real McDonald's and KFC once operated in Iran, but that ended with the 1979 revolution, when radical anti-American Shiite Muslims overthrew the Western-leaning monarchy and imposed strict Islamic rule. More recently, economic sanctions imposed by the U.S. and its allies over Iran's nuclear program have prevented...

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