As always, you're spot on in your observations. However, I would beg to differ on the decriminalization of alcohol aspect. See, the problem is that alcohol is prohibited in Iran's State religion. So long as the governing junta has to toe the line on religion, that's something that will never happen.
I know many pre-revolution Iranians who are extremely liberal and are more European than Middle-Easterners (or Europeans for that matter). I'm not suggesting that somehow the pre-revolution Shah-aligned intelligentsia would be better than what's there in Iran today, but at least that crowd was engaging the East, West, North and the South. Not really the case with the current regime, leading to this underground, subterranean behavior of alcoholism and drug abuse.
The Iranian Mullahs need to realize that their baby-girl from the revolution is no longer 16!
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