Some years ago, a B52 pilot visited my base to talk about his experiences in Vietnam as a POW, giving us first hand advice on the subject of resistance to interrogation.
He was quite clear. Information was the key to staying alive TO FIGHT ANOTHER DAY. He said that he fed them snippets of perishable, out-of-date info which meant that instead of getting 20 lashes, he only got 10.
A Marine pilot who was with him in the camp resisted completely, and spent the rest of his life with a broken mind and body in a VA mental hospital. Dying before he reached his 50th birthday.
Anybody who believes that the Iranians would not tortue or even kill our servicemen is naive. This team did exactly the right thing - they cooperated fully to achieve the aim of returning unharmed. Now they can go back and be ready to 'kick ass' as our American cousins might say.