| Hans-Günter Meyer-Thompson | International
Iran. Decades After Alcohol Ban, Iran Admits It Has a Problem
(...) In recent years, Iran, where alcohol has been illegal since the 1979 revolution and is taboo for devout Muslims, has taken the first step and admitted that, like most other nations, it has an alcohol problem.
Since 2015, when the Health Ministry ordered addiction treatment centers to care for alcoholics, dozens of private clinics and government institutions have opened help desks and special wards for alcoholics. The government has also allowed a large and growing network of Alcoholics Anonymous groups, modeled after those in the United States. (New York Times, 11.09.2017)
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/11/world/middleeast/iran-alcohol-rehabilitation.html