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Kavoussi’s own life is a remarkable story. He was born in Iran in 1975, a few years before the country’s tumultuous Islamic revolution. Sensing the inevitable, his father was able to safely move his family to a new home in New York City, where he bought a gas station to support them. Things turned south when his father became trapped in revolutionary Iran from 1979 to 1984, and life wasn’t much better for his family in New York, as Kavoussi recalls.
