Hero Of The Day

"I also recall during the Khomeini revolution substituing vodka for red wine in restaurants so that revolutionary guards looking in believed we were drinking water. A wealthy Azerbaijani friend in Shemiran hired a mechanical digger at that time to bury enough whisky and vodka in his garden to last for the rest of his life (I don't know whether he is still alive!)."

- William Dunn, Comment on "Wines in the Koran" article