Sherry Bayegan and Rezi Haghiri sold their popular Persian restaurant in Tehran and all their belongings and left their Iran six years ago. The couple had been under suspicion by the Iranian government for what officials called their “Western” ways, including that they were lesbians, punishable by death in Iran. They said leaving their families was especially difficult. Today, Bayegan and Haghiri live together in the Short North and are working to get a restaurant similar to the one they had in Iran off the ground in the United States.
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