In two month, Iranians go to the polls.

Riz Khan’s guest tonight is a man who some may view as the person who could change Iran’s relationship with the West.

Mohammad Khatami, the former Iranian president, who is running for re-election after a four-year gap, is seen as a reformist.

His views on relations with the West are in stark contract to that of the current president, the conservative Mahmoud Ahmedinejad.

Iranians go to the polls in June. If Khatami wins, and with Obama now in the White House, there may be an opportunity for a change in relations between the US and Iran.

Tonight at 20:30GMT (and repeated at 00:30 GMT, 05:30GMT and 11:30GMT on Tuesday), Riz Khan talk to Mohammad Khatami about his country’s relations with the West, national elections this summer, the controversy surrounding Iran’s nuclear programme and Iran-Israel relations.

Watch the Riz Khan show live and chat in real time in the Livestation player. Invite your friends to join the discussion. Remember, your comments may be used on air during the live programme.

I am very pleased to announce that Press TV has joined Livestation as of yesterday 2 June 2009.

Press TV offers a very distinctive view of international news and it broadcasts from Tehran in English 24/7.

Tonight we have the exclusive opportunity to bring you the first ever Iranian presidential debate live between Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (profile here) and his challenger in the forthcoming election Mir-Hossein Mousavi (profile here).

You can read more on the elections on the Press TV site here

The debate will be translated live and the chat room on the Press TV channel on the Livestation player will be available for viewers who want to share their views. We are hoping to have someone from Press TV in the room as well.

Press TV’s producer, Alireza Hajhosseini, will be on location getting firsthand reactions from Iranian Candidates’ advisors and forwarding them to Press TV’s Election Blogger, Farhod Family, during the exclusive live chat at Press TV on Livestation.com.

Join the conversation tonight at 1800GMT (2130 Tehran time) on the Livestation player on Press TV or watch on the website.

Livestation viewers watching a live debate between Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his challenger in the forthcoming election Mir-Hossein Mousavi voted in favour of the challenger during and at the end of the 90 minutes event.

Thousands watched the debate live on Livestation and hundreds of viewers took part in a live, instant chat as the two candidates set out their position. Half way through the debate, Press TV producers took a poll of how the candidates had fared.

In the first poll, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad polled 31% of the vote with Mir-Hossein Mousavi winning 47%, with 22% undecided.

In the second poll, as the debate drew to a close, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad polled 38% of the vote with Mir-Hossein Mousavi winning 49%, leaving 13% undecided.

Press TV is the latest channel to join Livestation. You can download the Livestation player free of charge at www.livestation.com

Journalists wanting to monitor and cover the three remaining live Iranian presidential debates can now do so from their desktop and watch a global audience chat about what is being said in real time.

You can capture quotes from the candidates, comments from the audience and take screen grabs of the action and of any live, real-time audience polls.

Earlier this week, the latest live Iranian presidential debate broadcast by Press TV from Tehran was streamed live on Livestation.

Hundreds watched the debate live from all corners of the world and chatted in real time with Press TV producers in Tehran exchanging views and expressing their preferences via the live polls Press TV pushed to their desktop.

This enabled Press TV to guage the mood of those watching the debate and to assess how each candidate had performed.

It gave a fascinating insight, not only into the thinking of those standing for the role of president of Iran, but of the global audience.

It might be useful for your news teams covering that area to monitor the next debates from your desktops or laptops. All you need to do is download the Livesation player, which is totally free and safe, install it on your computer and tune in.

You can minimise the screen and keep it running in the corner of your screen as you write your report. You can even take screen grabs to illustrate your report. If you want to use any of the chatroom comments, you can right click in the chat room pane, ‘select all’ and then edit it for your report. If the producers use the Livestation’s Live Panel and you can take a grab of that, too.

All these newsgathering and newsproduction tools are absolutely free. All you need is a fast broadband connection.

If you want to try it out, here is the remaining schedule:

6 June: Ahmadinejad-Karoubi
7 June: Karoubi-Mousavi
8 June: Ahmadinejad-Rezai

You don’t have to mention that you watched it on Livestation, but a mention and link would be nice.

Tonight we have the second of our exclusive online broadcasts of the Iranian presidential debates. This time featuring President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and one of his challengers in the forthcoming election, Mehdi Karroubi.

You can read more on the elections on the Press TV site here

The debate will be translated live and the chat room on the Press TV channel on the Livestation player will be available for viewers who want to share their views. We are hoping to have someone from Press TV in the room as well.

Join the conversation tonight, Saturday 6 June, at 1800GMT (2130 Tehran time) on the Livestation player on Press TV or watch on the website.

On Friday, Iran’s 46 million voters go to the polls to choose their next president. Will the incumbent, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, remain in office or be pushed out by one of three other contenders? Former Prime Minister Mirhossein Mousavi is running a close race and has surged in popularity during the two-week official campaign period – but will it be enough for him to win?

What are the issues facing the country? And what is at stake for the rest of the world?

On Thursday 11 June 2009, Riz discusses the potential scenarios with Hooman Majd, President Ahmadinejad’s former translator and author of the book, “The Ayatollah Begs To Differ.”

You can join the conversation on Livestation. Watch the show live at 2030gmt, with repeats the next day at 0030gmt, 0530gmt and 1130gmt.

Those currently watching the Iranian election through the eyes of Western media now have an alternative perspective that offers a unique insight into the significance of the historic event.

Press TV, broadcast live from Tehran, is now streamed 24 hours a day and seven days a week on Livestation, the destination for live TV over broadband.

With a couple of clicks you can download the Livestation player, absolutely free of charge and totally safe, and be watching the election from an Iranian point of view.

Not only that, but the Livestation player comes packed with a host of interactive features which enables any viewer to engage in real-time live chat about the TV output and take part in instant polls.

Livestation has already streamed the key Iranian presidential debates when hundreds packed the chat room and were polled on who they thought had fared the best.

The Livestation player can be minimised in widget form to sit neatly in the corner of your computer screen set to always on top to enable you to get on with other stuff while you keep an eye on the news.

And you can flick through the current Livestation channel list of official partner channels, such as BBC World, Al Jazeera, Bloomberg, France 24, Russia Today, and of course, Press TV, or one of the hundreds of user-added channels that pop up in the player. And yes, you can add any of your favourite legal web streams for your own personal use.

So download now and watch this internationally-significant election from a wide range of perspectives.

This On the Media event is in association with the BBC College of Journalism

With: Richard Sambrook, director of the BBC’s Global News division: Adrian Wells, head of foreign news, Sky News; Jean Seaton Professor of Media History at the University of Westminster’s Communication and Media Research Institute

Fighting in Gaza and Sri Lanka and the recent unrest in Iran all raised questions about how journalists can do their job when governments deny access.

The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have also provoked concern that the Ministry of Defence is aided in the task of managing the flow of information by the fact that it is frequently impossible for journalists to reach and report from the frontline of the conflict.

What challenges do conflicts such as those in Gaza and Sri Lanka earlier this year throw up, as well as the recent troubles in Iran, where Western journalists have been barred?

Mobile phones, Twitter and email have provided invaluable information but their use not only throws up challenges for established practice in newsgathering, it also raises questions about what happens when new media tools aren’t readily available, such as in Sri Lanka when thousands of people fled and many were killed and injured during fighting between government troops and the Tamil Tigers.

With the Israeli government relying more and more on public relations management and an increasingly sophisticated use of new media to get its message across, what is the role of the journalist in 21st century conflicts?

Watch and join the conversation on Livestation on the Frontline Club channel.

Live on the Frontline Club channel on Livestation on Wednesday 7 October at 7pm BST (8pm GMT)

With Jon Leyne, the BBC’s Tehran correspondent who is currently in London, Julian Borger, the Guardian’s diplomatic editor, Con Coughlin, executive foreign editor of the Daily Telegraph.

Rest of the panel to be confirmed.

Join us to discuss the state of play following diplomatic talks in Geneva between Iran and the five permanent members of the UN Security Council. What can be expected of the 25 October talks? Will re-elected president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad respond positively to Barack Obama’s appeal to Tehran that it “unclench its fist” or could we be facing a nuclear arms race that will threaten the future of the Middle East and beyond?

Following the success of September’s First Wednesday discussion on Afghanistan, Paddy O’Connell will be moderating the second of these dynamic debates.

More from the Frontline Club site here