I read an article (maybe it was an editorial) in our legal newspaper about the torture issue.
According to the writer, the principles and procedures of torture that the government is trying to implement are modeled after the Soviet methods.
A point that jumped out at me was that these methods were not designed to elicit information, but to break someone down.
In addition, the process is not a short-term thing, but takes place over time. The ticking nuclear time bomb theory that the mullahs love so much doesn't fit with this very well.
Anything modeled after the Soviets has to be suspect, IMHO.
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