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As I watched families clinging onto an aircraft in Kabul this summer, desperately trying to flee Afghanistan when the U.S. forces withdrew, I understood exactly how they were feeling. I remembered living through the revolution in Iran in 1979 as we watched the planes flying overhead, sirens sounding to turn off all city lights. We were amazed and worried about an uncertain future — and what we would have to do next as life had come to a complete stop.
My business career had started quite early. Growing up in Iran, we were not wealthy by any means. At the age of…
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