“We strongly recommend that you don’t call the British embassy. It could make things worse for you. My advice is to call the Australians.”
Any free advice offered by a member of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) should first be taken with an almighty pinch of salt, before being closely inspected for signs of reverse psychology. I learnt the hard way during two and a half years in IRGC custody that it is often best to do the exact opposite of whatever approach I was being urged to take. When you have been arbitrarily detained, psychologically tortured and sentenced to 10-years in a foreign prison in Kafkaesque court proceedings, trust is in short supply.
