Treats and tradition in Tehran’s oldest, tiniest teahouse

by Sammy Ketz and Ahmad Parhizi TEHRAN, Iran (AFP) — With his trimmed beard, red scarf and bronze-colored waistcoat, Kazem Mabhutian serves a steady stream of customers in the smallest and oldest teahouse in Tehran, but at 63 years old, he is counting on God to find him a successor. Tucked in an alleyway of the Grand Bazaar, wedged between a clothes shop and the door of a mosque, his 1.5-square-meter chaikhaneh (tea house) is […]