Why Iranians Drink More Tea Than Most of Earth

Today, tea is the national beverage of Iran. Iranians drink so much tea that the country has become the fourth largest per capita consumer of tea in the world. If you have at least one Iranian friend, this is probably not news to you; What you might not know is that a couple of hundred years ago, tea wasn’t really a thing in Iran. In fact, most Iranians were drinking coffee. Iran Untold guest host and volunteer Yara Elmjouie explores how tea became Iran’s #1 drink – and what happened to all that coffee.

CREDITS:

Host/Writer/Researcher: Yara Elmjouie
Producer/Co-Writer/ Co-researcher: Sahar Toghyani Dolatabadi
Art Director: Mohsen Amiri
Cinematography and Editing: Kebrit Studio
History Consultants: Dr. Nahid Mozaffari, Dr. Rudolph Matthee, Dr. Willem Floor
Executive Producers: Ramin Rabii, Ali Yazdanshenas
Sponsorship Manager: Masoud Hamidzadeh
Sponsored by Foumanat Tea Factory
Music Courtesy: Epidemic sound



Special Thanks To:
Alireza Alamdar
Radman Rabii
Rana Imani
Alireza Shahbazi
Farshad Khodamardi
Maryam Zaker
Maryam Mohammadi