I want to know why Israel can have booze and Iran can't. That aint fair.
Tons of booze in Iran, mostly "under the counter", but also in many a house-hold.
I find it interesting, but it's easy to compare to many other "soft" bans around the world, like cannabis in Spain or Portugal, it is banned, it is illegal, but it has been so normalized (and decriminalized, to be fair) you see people rolling joints openly, in cafeterias
Home made alcohol here is illegal, and cops sometimes do raids for bigger batches - however, a single bottle of *pure* alcohol is often overlooked and ignored, some cops would even "feel bad" for making a big fuss about some grown, working man hiding away a bottle of alcohol, and would let him keep it.
Teens sometimes have their alcohol poured out, without any more fuss made about it.
The same cops, same country, will flip their lid if they find ANY hash on you. ANY. People I know have been dragged in because of residue on their shoe-laces
But yeah, it's easy to think of another culture as "devoid" of certain things - because we're told it's banned there.