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Here's an iced tea recipe published in the American Forces Press Service.  It combines tea with orange juice, lime and/or lemon and fresh mint.

Orange-Mint Iced Tea

6 tea bags
2 tablespoons sugar
12 sprigs of fresh mint, divided
1 1/4 cups orange juice
juice of 1/2 lemon or lime
1/2 lemon, sliced
1/2 orange, seeded and sliced

Make a strong tea with two pints of boiling water and the six tea bags. Add two tablespoons of sugar and six sprigs of  the mint and infuse for 15 minutes.

Remove tea bags and allow to cool; remove mint.

Put plenty of ice in a glass jug and pour in cooled tea with the fresh orange juice, juice of 1/2 lime and another six sprigs of mint.  Add the sliced orange and lemon and stir.