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By Katherine Michalets Freeman Staff WAUKESHA — The rugs on display in Shabahang & Sons are more than decora- tive pieces for a home — they are handmade art suitable as heirlooms, said one of the family business' owners, Bruce Shabahang. Now that America has lift- ed embargoes against Iran, Persian rugs made in that country will once again be exported to the United States. Shabahang, whose family is from Iran, is excited to add to his gallery's diminishing supply of Persian rugs. "I'm glad they lifted the sanctions," he said. "They were hurting the people." A nuclear accord that was reached with Iran and imple- mented in January calls for the Middle Eastern country to dismantle parts of its nuclear program in exchange for lifting sanctions that have negatively affected the nation's economy. Shabahang & Sons works with a broker to purchase rugs directly from weavers in Iran, Turkey, India, Pakistan, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. 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Having sanctions lifted allows the com- pany to resume importing rugs from Iran, where brokers procure them directly from the people who weave them. Family business specializes in quality, handmade rugs

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