Living in an inconstant country!

There is a strange situation in Iran, everything is frequently changing, no one knows what should be done, prices are too high, some people prefer to buy more than their needs because they think it can be worse than it in the future and some people prefer to sell more because they think this situation is temporary and it is a good time to earn more money.

Can a parallel by made,  between the current situation in Iran and the Cold war? I don't know the situation in Iran enough, but from what I hear the economic stagnation in order to pour the country resources in the military sector, the propaganda from the both sides, severe restriction - this is what I remember from the Cold War. People would buy food like crazy when it was available, because it was so insecure what will happen, and if the next day there would be food, I remember when my kid was a baby there was no milk enough, so I'd get in 4AM and go on a long queue to wait so when they opened in 8 maybe there will be milk enough to get to me. My parents talked a lot about war and that US and turkey would attack any moment now. The cultural restriction were very draconian, not on religious, but in political base, which doesn't make much of a difference, the restrictions themselves were the same thing.

That's true, when people are just trying barely to survive, they don't have time to think about freedoms - the same logic was and is well exploited in communist countries. 

I discovered about 3-4 years back (shortly after my disappearance from these forums) that I have an Iranian uncle, and have subconsciously found myself more critical of British foreign policy regarding Iran. The thing that strikes me is that people here just don't care about Iran, and are completely apathetic, which isn't necessarily good :/

It's enough to make your drink bad whiskey....tho that might not be possible.

If you drink all the good whiskey first, it becomes more doable.