Five Years Later: An Award-Winning Burger, With a Side of Iranian Politics

By Sara Burningham

Published January 15, 2020 at 11:36 AM CST

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Hooshang Nazarali is the owner of Pig Trail Bypass County Cafe and the man behind the hooshburger.

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As tensions between the United States and Iran escalate, we turn to our archives for a story first reported by Sara Burningham in 2015 about a convenience store and cafe in Crosses, Arkansas with an unusual tie to Iran.