Newstalk explores Iran, America and the Middle East with Hormoz Hekmat, Editor, Iran Nameh Journal, Alireza Nourizadeh, political analyst and Ahmad Ahrar, Editor-in-Chief, Kayhan

News & Views focuses on U.S. and international reaction to Iran's defiance of the UN deadline to stop its nuclear program. IAEA plans to issue a report on Iran later today. Live report from New York-UN correspondent Nazzy Beglari. Siamak Deghanpour covers a Foreign Pres Center briefing with Air Force Lt. General Henry A. Obering, Director of the U.S. Missile Defense Agency and Asst. Sec. for European and Eurasian Affairs Daniel Fried, on "U.S. Missile Defense Plans for Europe."

Roundtable hosts Mr. Ghafour Mirzaie, an author, journalist and editor of "Rahavard" a quarterly magazine, published in California. He will discuss the implications of Iran's defiance of the UN Security Council's deadline this week for Iran to stop enriching uranium.

Late Edition features an interview with Resident Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute Richard Perle on President Bush's troop escalation in Iraq, Iran's involvement in Iraq and Iran's nuclear program.