Was it the UAE? Similar situation. Ordered a couple times previously and everything smooth. This time it took forever sitting in customs, supposedly made it "inbound out of customs" and hasn't budged in like 10 days. It was shipped out over a month ago. It's not looking good.
Funny irony, there's nothing remotely controlled - just Cialis & skin cream for the girl lol.
Not sure if using a country known for it's funding/support of global terrorism is gonna work out in the long run as a shipping point of origin. Those packages might get a little bit more scrutiny.