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Apple Store Refused to Sell iPad, iPhone to Iranian Customers [REPORT]
Did Apple Store employees in Alpharetta, Ga., refuse to sell an iPhone and an iPad to Farsi-speaking customers because they said they would be sending at least one of the devices to a friend in Iran?
That's what Sarah Sabet, a U.S. citizen of Iranian heritage, told WSB-TV, calling the experience "discrimination" and "very hurtful."
Sabet, a 19-year old student at the University of Georgia, was reportedly at an Apple Store in a local mall with a friend to buy a pair of new iDevices.
After Apple Store employees overheard Sabet and her friend speaking to one another in Farsi, they asked them what language they were speaking, where they were from and where the devices were headed.…
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