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Republican Accountability Project founder Sarah Longwell

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The Wave of Alcohol Poisoning in Iran

There's been a wave of alcohol poisoning because alcohol was banned in Iran, the sale and consumption of it. So this food like, unregulated, food like market has kind of taken off in Iran. People really don't know whether the alcohol they're buying if it's distilled at home or if it's fake sort of brand bottles. Even the government says that there's been a rise in the number of people who've died,. including a very famous Iranian artist, Khosra Hassan Zaladir, who had drank with his friends then fell into a coma and died about a week later.

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