{{Short description|American Middle East scholar}} {{BLP sources|date=September 2011}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Ray Takeyh | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1966}} | birth_place = Tehran, Iran | death_date = | death_place = | education = University of Oxford (PhD) }} '''Ray Takeyh''' is an Iranian-American Middle East scholar, former United States Department of State official, and a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/28/world/middleeast/28iran.html U.S. Is Seeking a Range of Sanctions Against Iran]</ref>
==Early life== Ray Takeyh was born to an Assyrian family in Tehran, Iran in 1966.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Zinda 16 October 2006|url=http://www.zindamagazine.com/html/archives/2006/10.16.06/index_mon.php|website=www.zindamagazine.com|access-date=2020-05-10}}</ref> His family has origins in the village of Takeyh-Ardishai in Urmia.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Zinda 16 October 2006|url=http://www.zindamagazine.com/html/archives/2006/10.16.06/index_mon.php|website=www.zindamagazine.com|access-date=2020-05-10}}</ref> He obtained a doctorate in modern history from the University of Oxford.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Editors |first=C. F. R. |title=Ray Takeyh {{!}} Council on Foreign Relations |url=https://www.cfr.org/expert/ray-takeyh |access-date=2025-11-05 |website=www.cfr.org |language=en}}</ref>
==Career== Before joining the council, he was a fellow in international security studies at Yale University, a fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, a professor at the National War College, and a professor and director of studies at the Near East and South Asia Center at the National Defense University. He is married to Suzanne Maloney, Brookings Institution Deputy Director of Foreign Policy, also an Iran analyst.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/clinton-foundation-donor-violated-iran-sanctions-tried-to-sell-747s-to-tehran|title = Clinton Foundation Donor Violated Iran Sanctions, Tried to Sell 747s to Tehran|newspaper = The Daily Beast|date = 10 July 2015|last1 = Shirazi|first1 = Michael Weiss}}</ref>
Takeyh has written extensively on Iran and U.S. policy toward the Middle East. He has testified several times before various committees of the U.S. Senate. He has appeared as an Iran expert on a variety of television programs, including the PBS ''Newshour''.
Takeyh assisted Dennis Ross in 2009 in the latter's position as senior Iran advisor at the U.S. State Department.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.armscontrol.org/new_administration_members|title=New Members of the Obama Administration|date=May 7, 2009|publisher=Arms Control Association|accessdate=July 14, 2015}}</ref>
==Books== * Ray Takeyh, ''The Last Shah: America, Iran, and the Fall of the Pahlavi Dynasty'' (Yale University Press, 2021). {{ISBN|978-0-30-025626-0}} * Ray Takeyh, ''Guardians of the Revolution: Iran and the World in the Age of the Ayatollahs'' (Oxford University Press, 2009). {{ISBN|978-0-19-532784-7}} * Ray Takeyh, ''[http://www.cfr.org/publication/11118/hidden_iran.html Hidden Iran: Paradox and Power in the Islamic Republic]'' (Times Books/Henry Holt, 2006). {{ISBN|0-8050-7976-9}} * Ray Takeyh, Nikolas Gvosdev, ''[http://www.greenwood.com/catalog/C7628.aspx The Receding Shadow of the Prophet: The Rise and Fall of Radical Political Islam]'' (Praeger Publishers, 2004). {{ISBN|0-275-97628-9}} * Ray Takeyh, ''The Origins of the Eisenhower Doctrine: The United States, Britain, and Nasser's Egypt, 1953–1957'' (Macmillan Press, 2000)
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==External links== * [http://www.cfr.org/bios/9599/ray_takeyh.html Ray Takeyh's Council on Foreign Relations web page] * [https://www.senate.gov/~foreign/testimony/2006/TakeyhTestimony060919.pdf Senate testimony] – September 19, 2006. * {{C-SPAN|92414}} * [https://www.thedailybeast.com/clinton-foundation-donor-violated-iran-sanctions-tried-to-sell-747s-to-tehran]
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