Of course, one cannot be 100% sure, but, imo, there is a very strong possibility, and I’m going to agree with you for some of the reasons you’ve mentioned.
Additionally, it is not humanly possible to endure 9 years of abuse based on initial psychological assessment which these type of high profile, and often, political prisoners in IRI go through.
The initial psych assessments are done for specific reasons; a type of diagnose, if you will. Psychological breaking and reconditioning processes are then employed as per initial psych assessment as well as ongoing ones (checkpoints of progress, in other words).
Actually physical torture I hear is a secondary tool used in IRI; the emphasis is more and more on shifting mindset and indoctrination. Of course, this process does not apply to every single prisoner.
diagnose = diagnosis
I have contacted some of my people again and they repeat that Batebi is a plant. They ask “what kind of passport did he use for his travels?”
Like the infiltator Abbas Fakhrovar who claimed he had a sboot on sight order out on him, yet traipsed in and out of Evin prison to visit Akbar Ganji, another infiltator, at that time and eventually used a regular passport issued to him by the same Islamic regime that put the shoot on sight order out on him to leave the country and be received by those who then brought him into the USA.
Incidentally, it appears that the minders and supporters of Batebi, who are trumpeting his arrival - may well have very close relatives on furlough from Evin prison inside Iran themselves and risk them being rearrested and probably dying in prison if that happens. Quite a leverage for the Mullahs to ensure their co-operation and support for their Batebi plant. The same group was involved with promoting another plant in the past.
There is much more to this than meets the eye and the website that posted the story is trusting and has trusted sources that have provided disinformation and have close family in peril inside Islamic Iran.
Batebi was free for a long time and working in plain sight and living in full sight of the Mullahs, so the torture etc., is highly exaggerated and part of the background fabricated for him.
Yes, he suffered torture for a while but was let go fairly quickly (relatively speaking) and went back to leading a normal life and earning a living in advertising sales.
Last year he was rearrested and so was his wife to bring him into play and prepae him for us. Enough said.