Apple Store Refuses To Sell To American Citizens Speaking Farsi In Case They Might Send iPhone To Iran
from the policy-is-policy dept
This is just bizarre. Apparently, an Iranian-born American citizen who was speaking Farsi was denied the ability to buy an iPad and an iPhone because store employees cited an Apple policy barring the export of Apple products to Iran.Jafarzadeh, who is from Virginia, said no one asked him where the phone was going. The employee only questioned his ethnicity.It certainly sounds like Apple might want to train some of its employees a bit better in understanding what "export" means. And maybe Apple employees should also be made aware of the fact that American citizens can speak Farsi.
"I feel like this is a bit of racial profiling against Iranians and I'm appalled," Jafarzadeh said.

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