The Iranian-Iraqi cafe drawing crowds to Hackney

A queue stretches down a street in east London. It is for Logma, a newly opened Iranian-Iraqi cafe in Hackney that has gone viral for its sandwiches - which sell out within an hour or two. Many are drawn in by pictures they have seen on Instagram and start queuing around noon at the weekend. Despite being the most popular item on the menu, the owners confess the sandwiches were "kind of a mistake" born out of their decision to open before having any plates or cutlery. Couple Ziad Halub and Farsin Rabiee ran a popular series of sold-out supper clubs in London before opening Logma, just days before protests broke out in Iran and spread across the country. Rabiee says the timing of starting their business has been "bittersweet". "It's been a very difficult period for myself as an Iranian and many Iranians," he says. The couple opened Logma on 21 December to mark Yalda, an Iranian celebration for the winter solstice. Authorities reacted with a violent crackdown on protesters and a near-complete shutdown of Iran's internet access to the outside world. According to the US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency (Hrana), at least 7,000 people were killed in January, including 6,488 prote