For the DFW Metroplex Immigrants Oral History Project. Iranian-born immigrant to Dallas, Texas, restaurant owner and real estate investor. Coming to U.S. from Tehran, Iran; driving taxi cab and working in restaurants in Dallas; acquiring his restaurant “The Old Warsaw”; meeting his wife, having three daughters; decision to come to America; living in America during the Carter Administration; his parents’ thoughts about him leaving Iran; inadequacies of the American school system; three sisters still living in Iran; final thoughts on solutions to the problems with American schools.