...these days you can take a person and make him say whatever you want. There are drugs that work. Believe me. Don't judge someone until you're in their shoes.
Is that the ticket? So all confessions of all criminals are suddenly rendered worthless.
But you made me remember an episode: we witnessed some political trials last summer in Tehran, very similar to Stalin's show trials in Moscow, the only significant difference being that nobody was actually executed. I was convinced that it is possible to make people confess without torture. You might have read that breath-taking book "Darkness at Noon". Not everyone who confesses is severely tortured.
I think he did it for the heck of 'improving conditions for ethnic Baluchis' and the 'rights for Sunni Muslims' so to speak. Why wouldn't Iran improve those conditions-n-rights after all? As the modern saying goes, there's no military way to solve that issue, there are only diplomatic ways. So, why not starting negotiations with ethnic Baluchis and Sunni Muslims? I mean, the second part of that Nobel Peace Prize would definitely go to Iran's Head of State.
I see you have some well-thought-out suggestions here! You could submit that to our president's office. Should I give you his address?!