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Microsoft has opened its first retail store in Iran and may soon be joined by Apple and McDonald’s, according to Iranian media reports.

Press TV, citing the Tasnim News Agency, said on Sept. 17 that the American technology giant had set up shop in Teheran, making it the first U.S. company to establish a presence in Iran since the signing of the nuclear agreement with world powers.

Press TV also reported that Apple and McDonald’s had been putting out feelers to enter the Iranian market, though the latter company was said to be backpedaling after an outpouring of anti-American sentiment in Iran.

The reports said the shop in Teheran will be selling mobile phones produced by Microsoft.

“This five-unit store has been opened by Pars Samtel, the exclusive agent of Microsoft mobile phones, at Iran Mobile Marketplace on Hafez Avenue in Teheran, with the company’s banner ad clarifying that the store is the first in Iran,” the report said, claiming that Microsoft had long been wanting to enter into the Iranian market, which consists of 80 million people, most of whose computers have Windows operating systems.

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