Word: scotches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Elsewhere in the downtown area, near Mellat Park on a street that bears the nickname "Hippiabad," vendors sell Top Ten tunes on cassettes, blasting out their wares on expensive Japanese tape decks. In an apartment in North Tehran, at a birthday party for a well-known singer, champagne and Scotch flow as freely as they did in the days before prohibition was imposed last winter...
...vendors with boiled sugar beets, pistachio nuts and sunflower seeds still do business in the streets. Peddlers hawk everything from blue jeans to plastic kitchen utensils. Even some discotheques continue to operate, illegally but discreetly, serving soda instead of booze. But there is a flourishing black market in liquor: Scotch, bootlegged from Iraq, sells for $60 to $90 a bottle and moonshine vodka from...