Iran's 'hidden' alcoholism problem
Alcohol? Who said alcohol? I'll take some of that.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-18504268
"Iranian health officials have expressed deep concern over rising alcohol intake, calling for measures to tackle the issue.
The warning is significant given that Iran banned alcohol after the 1979 Islamic revolution. But there is no consensus on how to address the problem. Some authorities have tried to cover up the issue................"
You can over run the country and make it Muslim - but you can't stamp the Persian out of them.
".....References to wine and drinking are an inseparable part of Persian poetry. Poems by Omar Khayyam (1048-1131) and the Sufi mystic Mawlana Jalaloddin Balkhi (1207-1273), known in the West as Rumi, are enriched with references to wine.
But since the revolution, the authorities have tried to interpret these purely within a spiritual context, especially because the late Ayatollah Khomeini used the same terminology in his poetry. ..............."
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