CFR Senior Fellows Ray Takeyh and Matthew Kroenig discuss the escalating tension with Iran and the challenges it poses for US strategy in this Council on Foreign Relations Special Briefing.

CFR fellows Matthew Kroenig, Elliot Abrams and Ray Takeyh discuss the findings of the United Nations’ International Atomic Energy Agency report on Iran's nuclear program.

CFR senior fellows Max Boot and Ray Takeyh discuss the strategy and ramifications of military action in Libya by coailition forces.

Ray Takeyh and James M. Lindsay discuss Iran and nonproliferation.

Symposium on Iran focusing on policy options and recommendations for the next administration.

Panels discuss U.S. policy toward Iran following the recent release of the National Intelligence Estimate.

Senior Fellow Ray Takeyh dicusses his March/April 2007 Foreign Affairs article. He argues that Washington must eschew military options and adopt a new policy of détente.

Ray Takeyh, Kenneth Pollack, and Barbara Slavin provide an inside glimpse of the domestic politics that shape the country’s actions on the world stage, as well as some policy prescriptions for dealing with Iran. 

Panelists addressed whether Shia power is destabilizing, with particular attention placed on the Shia communities in Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Kuwait, Iran , and Iraq, and how this accumulation of Shia power affects the wider Sunni world.

Charles Kupchan, Stephen Sestanovich, and Ray Takeyh discuss the motivations of Europe, Russia, the United States, and Iran to negotiate Iran’s nuclear ambitions. Europe is interested in seeking consensus and unity for peace, while Russia seeks to “redeem” a rogue state and bolster its own status. The United States wants to prevent a nuclear Iran at all costs, and Iran desires recognition of its power and culture.