Iran's Ahmadinejad Rebuked

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The United Nations has cracked down and Iran has snapped back. Will sanctions have any effect? Plus, the US military reaches another grim milestone in Iraq, and the assault on the middle class of America and why one author says the Democrats should pay attention. Sara Terry guest hosts.

Making News

Military Deaths in Iraq Surpass Number Killed on September 11 ()

The US military has announced the death of six more American soldiers in Iraq today, bringing the military death toll there to 2,977.  That's four more than the number killed in the September 11 attacks.

Guests:

• Michael Hastings: Reporter for Newsweek

Main Topic

Security Council Imposes Sanctions on Iran ()

After months of deadlock, the United Nations Security Council has agreed to impose limited sanctions on Iran for its refusal to stop its uranium enrichment program. On Sunday, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad responded by insisting that his nation is a nuclear country, triggering concern among his Arab neighbors. What happens next? What impact will the sanctions have? How do recent elections in Iran affect relations with the West? How are Iran's Arab neighbors responding to Iran’s increasingly bold nuclear rhetoric?  Sara Terry guest hosts.

Guests:

• Trita Parsi: President of the National Iranian American Council
• Gal Luft: Executive Director of the Institute for the Analysis of Global Security
• Anne Barnard: Correspondent, The Boston Globe
• Abbas Milani-good: Co-Director, Hoover Institution'sIran Democracy Project
• Hossein Hedjazi: Host, Radio Iran

Reporter's Notebook

Is Economic Insecurity Growing for Middle Class Americans? ()

The New York Times calls Jacob Hacker the "intellectual 'it boy'" of the Democratic Party. Three years out of Harvard, he wrote that the Clinton healthcare plan failed because it was a hodgepodge of ideas without many natural allies. He says the nation didn't turn conservative so much as that Republicans learned how to game the political system and package their agenda better than the Democrats. Now that the Democrats are back in power, he's written a new book contending that the way for them to stay there is by talking about the dwindling economic security of the middle class.

Guests:

• Jacob Hacker: Author, Professor of Political Science at Yale University

Host

Sara Terry

A former staff correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor and magazine freelance writer, Sara Terry made a mid-career transition into photojournalism and documentary photography in the late 1990's. Her long-term project about the aftermath of war in Bosnia, Aftermath: Bosnia’s Long Road to Peace, was published in September 2005. Her work has been widely exhibited, at such venues as the United Nations, the Museum of Photography in Antwerp, and the Moving Walls exhibition at the Open Society Institute in New York. Her photographs are in the permanent collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and in many private collections. In 2005, she received a prestigious Alicia Patterson Fellowship for her work in Bosnia. She is also the founder of The Aftermath Project, a nonprofit grant program which helps photographers cover the aftermath of conflict. She resides in Los Angeles and is currently working on her next long-term project, Forgiveness and Conflict: Lessons from Africa.

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