When the Iranian American Society of Utah held an event last month featuring a performance by the celebrated Iranian actor Parviz Sayyad, members deemed the evening a success.
The show went off without a hitch and the nonprofit earned roughly $800 in online ticket sales alone, using the payment company Stripe to process the transactions.
Nearly two weeks after the fact, the Salt Lake City-based organization still had not received its money nor any word from Stripe as to why there might be a delay in processing its funds.
Masoud Abbasi, the Iranian American Society of Utah’s (IASOU) secretary, said he thought it must be a mistake.