“consumption of alcohol is banned, but bootleggers have distributed industrial alcohol. “
This happens all the time. Not new. But telling people they have a cure for the virus in the form of methanol is evil.
Iranians are very susceptible to ‘miracle cures’ because they don’t trust what the gov’t tells them and don’t get the medical care they really need & feel desperate for some kind of help. Again, not something new.
Industrial alcohol (ethanol) is produced by steam hydration of ethylene, which is produced in turn by steam cracking of hydrocarbons from crude oil and/or ethane gas; industrial methanol is produced by steam hydration of methane. Quite a different process from fermentation and distillation.