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63-year-old Iraqi Mam Darwish runs a café in one of the border villages in the Byara region between the Kurdistan region of Iraq and Iran. However, the place where he sells tea is separated from Iran by a small watercourse not exceeding half a meter wide.
This feature of the café made most Iranian customers cross the border to sip Iraqi tea, which is known for its special flavor, without the need for an entry visa or stamping passports.
They used to drink Darwish tea at different times, in addition to the fact that the café became an attractive tourist point for Iraqi tourists coming from the central and southern regions of the country.
Darwish opens his café from seven in the morning until seven in the evening every day, and sells tea for 250 Iraqi dinars (about 15 cents) inside Iraq, but he sells it for a small amount that does not exceed a thousand tomans to Iranian citizens by extending his hand only over the small waterway.