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  • 4 days ago | wsj.com | Reuel Marc Gerecht |Ray Takeyh

    It was long evident that Iran’s atomic-weapons program wouldn’t be disabled through diplomatic negotiations and porous compacts such as President Barack Obama’s nuclear deal. George W. Bush, Joe Biden and Donald Trump in his first term also chose to punt, hoping that a mix of sanctions would obviate the need for any U.S. military action. Mr. Biden made the bad bet that leaving sanctions unenforced would lead Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei content with staying a nuclear threshold state.

  • 1 week ago | cfr.org | Ray Takeyh

    Ray Takeyh is Hasib J. Sabbagh senior fellow for Middle East studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. With the targeted killings of numerous top military leaders, how much control do Iran’s supreme leader and his main regime factions still have over the country? More From Our Experts At this point, Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei appears to maintain sufficient control. But in the aftermath of this crisis, whenever that may be, his authority will likely be diminished.

  • 1 week ago | fdd.org | Krystal Bermudez |Eric Edelman |Reuel Marc Gerecht |Ray Takeyh

    There are many paths to regime change in Iran. In 2020, two of us (Edelman and Takeyh) wrote an essay in Foreign Affairs in which we outlined a way to topple the Islamic Republic. At that time, we assumed that the use of force was off the table and that outside powers could only gradually erode the regime’s sources of strength. Israel’s attack on Iran this month has introduced a new and volatile element into the mix, but the underlying logic remains the same.

  • 1 week ago | foreignaffairs.com | Eric Edelman |Reuel Marc Gerecht |Ray Takeyh

    There are many paths to regime change in Iran. In 2020, two of us (Edelman and Takeyh) wrote an essay in Foreign Affairs in which we outlined a way to topple the Islamic Republic. At that time, we assumed that the use of force was off the table, and that outside powers could only gradually erode the regime’s sources of strength. Israel’s attack on Iran this month has introduced a new and volatile element into the mix, but the underlying logic remains the same.

  • 2 weeks ago | wsj.com | Reuel Marc Gerecht |Ray Takeyh

    We don’t know exactly how successful the raid was, but the era of diplomatic nonproliferation is over. With Israel’s attack on Iran’s nuclear program, ballistic-missile facilities and senior officers and scientists, the age of diplomatic nonproliferation is over. It had been on life-support since North Korea went nuclear in 2006.

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