Ray Takeyh

Trump Administration   Mar 6, 2017 Snapshot

Labeling Iran's Revolutionary Guard

The Trump administration must understand that it cannot stabilize the Middle East without first weakening the Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps. And to do that...

Mark Dubowitz and Ray Takeyh

WMD & Proliferation   Dec 15, 2016 Snapshot

How Trump Should Contain Iran

The most certain means of fighting back against Iran’s imperial surge is to imperil its revolution at home.

Robert Joseph and Ray Takeyh

WMD & Proliferation   Jul 13, 2016 Snapshot

Can't Have It Both Ways in Iran

Clinton and Kerry’s position contains a crippling contradiction. Washington can either accommodate or confront the clerical regime. It can’t do both.

Reuel Marc Gerecht and Ray Takeyh

Campaigns & Elections   Mar 8, 2016 Snapshot

The Death of Iran's Islamic Left

The curiousness of Iran's theocratically managed democracy is amplified by elections (like the ones just held) and the Iranian press, which reports on the campaigns...

Ray Takeyh and Reuel Marc Gerecht

WMD & Proliferation   January/February 2016 Essay

Time to Get Tough 
on Tehran

Given the serious challenge Iran poses to U.S. interests, Washington should seek to roll back the country’s growing influence in the Middle East while systematically...

Eliot A. Cohen, Eric S. Edelman, and Ray Takeyh

ISIS   Nov 15, 2015 Snapshot

Iran's ISIS Trap

Iran is using ISIS’ ascendance in the Middle East to consolidate its power.

Ray Takeyh and Reuel Marc Gerecht

U.S. Foreign Policy   September/October 2014 Response

Coupdunnit

De Bellaigue faults Takeyh for minimizing the CIA’s role in the 1953 coup in Iran; Takeyh responds and criticizes De Bellaigue for viewing the Iranians as “benighted...

Christopher de Bellaigue; Ray Takeyh

Corruption   July/August 2014 Comment

What Really Happened in Iran

Conventional wisdom about the 1953 coup in Iran rests on the myth that the CIA toppled the country's democratically elected prime minister. In reality, the coup was...

Ray Takeyh

Obama Administration   May/June 2014 Essay

Near Eastern Promises

The problems of the Middle East remain too deeply intertwined with U.S. national security and the American economy to ignore. Whatever it might prefer to do, the Obama...

Kenneth M. Pollack and Ray Takeyh

U.S. Foreign Policy   Jan 2, 2014 Snapshot

Don’t Get Suckered by Iran

Before pursuing a comprehensive nuclear deal with Iran, the White House needs to reassess its interim agreement. It would be a grave error to allow the Islamic...

Mitchell B. Reiss and Ray Takeyh

Security   July/August 2010 Response

The Containment Conundrum

How Dangerous Is a Nuclear Iran?

Barry R. Posen, Barry Rubin, and James M. Lindsay and Ray Ta

United Nations   March/April 2010 Essay

After Iran Gets the Bomb

Despite international pressure, Iran appears to be continuing its march toward getting a nuclear bomb. But Washington can contain and mitigate the consequences of...

James M. Lindsay and Ray Takeyh

Economics   Jun 22, 2005 Postscript

Changing the Guard, Keeping the Nuclear Card

In their March/April 2005 Foreign Affairs essay "Taking on Tehran", Kenneth Pollack and Ray Takeyh argued that offering economic benefits to moderates in Tehran could...

Ray Takeyh

Security   Sep 2, 2003 Postscript

Warming Up to Libya

Takeyh's postscript to his May/June 2001 essay "The Rogue Who Came in From the Cold."

Ray Takeyh

U.S. Foreign Policy   January/February 2008 Essay

The Costs of Containing Iran

The Bush administration wants to contain Iran by rallying the support of Sunni Arab states and now sees Iran's containment as the heart of its Middle East policy: a...

Vali Nasr and Ray Takeyh

GW Bush Administration   March/April 2007 Essay

Time for Détente With Iran

To tame the growing power of Iran, Washington must eschew military options, the prospect of conditional talks, and attempts to contain the regime. Instead, it should...

Ray Takeyh

Security   March/April 2005 Essay

Taking on Tehran

If Washington wants to derail Iran's nuclear program, it must take advantage of a split in Tehran between hard-liners, who care mostly about security, and pragmatists,...

Kenneth Pollack and Ray Takeyh

Terrorism & Counterterrorism   May/June 2001 Essay

The Rogue Who Came in From the Cold

The recent trial of two Libyans for the 1988 bombing of Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, raises a vexing problem for U.S. policymakers: What should...

Ray Takeyh