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No tears shed here, either. I imagine it's status quo over there anyway, since there is no "normal alcohol" in Iran; it's all forbidden.

From Wikipedia: "Alcohol in Iran is prohibited for Iranian citizens by law since the establishment of Islamic Republic government in 1979."

"Alcohol poisoning is quite common because illegal alcohol is often sub-standard. There were 768 cases of hospitalisation due to methanol poisoning in eight provinces in Iran over the course of 4 weeks in late 2018. 96 of the patients died."

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When Franco was driving on Madrid in 1936 some of his Moroccan troops broke into labs at the university. When they saw animals preserved in formaldehyde, they thought it would make them immortal so they drank it (with the same result).