The Smoking Gun: Iran

Friday's Daily Briefing of Iran.
The smoking gun found: Iran supplies new weapons to Iraq's insurgents.

• ABC News reported that U.S. officials say they have found smoking-gun evidence of Iranian support for terrorists in Iraq : brand-new weapons fresh from Iranian factories.

Free Azita!

• Help free Azita Shafagghat & her husband Ahmad-Reza Shafaggat from the Turkish prison. Turkish authorities are about to send them to Iran . Both have converted to Christianity which under the current Islamic law in Iran is punishable by death. Photo.

Psiphon released: A defeat for Iran 's internet censors, a win for free speech.

• Globe and Mail reported that the internet censor breaking program: Psiphon is set to launch Friday. Get it here.

Will the Islamic Republic take Canada 's embassy hostage?

• Canada.com reported that the federal government has taken steps to ensure the safety of the Canadian embassy in Tehran after Iranian legislators called it a den of spies and demanded it be shutdown.

Behind The Cheney Trip to Saudi Arabia.

• Jeffrey Steinberg, Executive Intelligence Review reported that a highly reliable source has provided the following account of Vice President Dick Cheney's Nov. 25, 2006 visit to Saudi Arabia.

Here are a few other news items you may have missed.

• Frank Gaffney, The New York Daily News reported that while a growing number are calling for direct talks with Iran , Bush has remained opposed. Why? Because Iran is, hands down, the main impediment to freedom and stability in Iraq.
• Michael Ledeen, The National Review Online reported on Stephen Hadley's recent trip to Iraq and his so called leaked “...memorandum prepared for cabinet-level officials...”
• The New York Sun reported that the Baker-Hamilton commission would be released on December 6 and will likely challenge the president's current thinking on Iraq.
• Max Singer, The National Review Online reexamined the comparisons between Vietnam and the Iraq war.
• Cox & Forkum published a cartoon: Ahmadinejad - The Stalker.

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