Bitter Coffee

The series begins with history teacher Nima Zande-Karimi (Siamak Ansari) realizing that his extensive research on Persian and world history is of little use to financing his day-to-day life. He is about to leave Tehran for good to go back to his hometown by the name of Darab, when he comes across young university student Roya Atabaki (Sahar Jafari-Jozani) who is researching for her final year dissertation, which is regarding the period 1198–1203, that is said to be a period of turmoil for Iran's ruling elite. Such turmoil that, very few books are available on that period for Roya's research. It is then that Nima receives an anonymous telephone call, which leads him to Niavaran Palace (currently a museum), where he is told to have a coffee and wait. The coffee (which is bitter) is ready and he duly drinks it, his sight becomes hazy, and when he manages to refocus he is in the year 1201 (1822 AD), and the story develops therein.

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  Siamak Ansari

  Mostashar-ol-Molk / Nima Zand-Karimi
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  Mohammadreza Hedayati

  King Jahangir Doloo
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  Mehran Modiri

  Bluetooth the Great
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  Elika Abdolrazzaghi

  Queen Fakhr-o-Taj
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  Sahar Zakaria

  Lobat-ol-Molook Doloo
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  Reza Feyznorouzi

  Premier Etemad-ol-Molk Deylami
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  Maryam Bbakhshi

  Akhtar-ol-Molook
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  Sahar Jafari Jozani

  Naz-Khatoon Deylami / Roya Atabaki
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  Aref Lorestani

  Sheriff Balad-ol-Molk
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  Borzoo Arjmand

  General Borzoo Sepahsalar