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| Born | 1966 (age 57–58) Tehran, Iran |
| 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. [1]
Ray Takeyh was born to an Assyrian family in Tehran, Iran in 1966. [2] His family has origins in the village of Takeyh-Ardishai in Urmia. [3] He obtained his doctorate from the University of Oxford.
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. [4]
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. [5]
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Kermit "Kim" Roosevelt Jr. was an American intelligence officer who served in the Office of Strategic Services during and following World War II. A grandson of Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th President of the United States, Roosevelt went on to establish American Friends of the Middle East and then played a lead role in the CIA's efforts to overthrow Mohammad Mosaddegh, the democratically elected Majlis-appointed prime minister of Iran, in August 1953.
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