IRAN: Activist issues preemptive retraction of future confession

Only in Iran...

From the LA Times:

IRAN: Activist issues preemptive retraction of future confession:

"What do you do when your imprisoned friends and political allies admit to plotting against the Islamic Republic of Iran in an elaborate and suspiciously scripted series of televised confessions?

What if you're worried you're next?

You could skip town or keep quiet. Or, if you are prominent opposition activist Mohsen Armin, you can try and beat the authorities at their own game by issuing a retraction of any future televised confession in anticipation of your own arrest and possible torture.

Armin, a member of Islamic Revolution Combatants Organization, or the IRCO, posted the renunciation on his website under the glib headline “I look forward to being detained.”

“If the providence of God requires that I will be in jailed as my brethren have been so far and if, in jail and under pressure, I say something against what I have said, be sure that it is not my true belief and that I recanted under pressure," he wrote."

[-- Meris Lutz and Ramin Mostaghim, Los Angeles Times
Photo: Opposition activist Mohsen Armin. Credit: Roozonline.com ]

Next, will it be Osama bin Laden? Ayman al Zawahiri? Might al Qaeda activists want to preemptively retract any confessions they might make under American interrogation, particularly of "enhanced" nature? Lest we forget, waterboarding is out, but still sanctioned are extreme heat/cold, sleep deprivation, and isolation...