I wonder if anyone else flew on the famous Swissair flight out of Teheran to Zurich, via Bandar Abbas and, I think, Dubai (it might have been Abu Dhabi)? Switzerland, being neutral, meant that Swissair was the only airline allowed to fly into Teheran. I took this trip during the Iran-Iraq war. The main purpose of the Dubai stop, outside Irani airspace, was to load the plane with booze for all the alcohol-starved Westerners to restore their blood alcohol level to something like normal. At Bandar Abbas the 747 went technical, and stood on the tarmac in 45 degree heat for four hours, with only tepid water from the water dispensers as a source of cooling, while a vital component was flown across the Persian Gulf to replace the bit that had failed. I was keen not to exit the plane as I had no exit stamp from Iran (I was smuggled out because the Revolutionary Guards, the Sepah Pasdaran, wanted me to stay, but that's a non-aviation-related story) so when we finally left we were all hot, hungry and especially thirsty when at Dubai the trolley dollies wheeled out the drinks trollies, one on front of them, one behind, on each of the aisles. They served miniatures of spirits six at a time, and wine in three bottles of 200 ml, which is what I had for breakfast. The whole plane became one enormous party as the relief of leaving Iran combined with the effect of all that booze on alcohol-starved systems took effect.
My next recollection was of driving along the M4 home. I must have transitted Zurich in my sleep. I swore never to go to Iran again, and in fact quit my job rather than return there. My replacement spent most of his time in Teheran in a basement air-raid shelter surrounded by panicking, hysterical Iranis being bombed by the Iraqi air force.