Ray Takeyh: 'Iran is not a personalised dictatorship, it's an ideological system'
France 24
by FRANCE24March 3, 2026
Carys Garland is pleased to welcome Ray Takeyh, Senior Fellow for Middle East Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). As war rages in Iran, Mr. Takeyh warns that America's "war of choice" is guided by an improvised military strategy that swings wildly between grand ambitions of regime change and more narrowly framed goals, including disabling Iran’s missile program, neutralising its proxy networks, and permanently ending its nuclear aspirations. All are open-ended commitments and lack a clearly articulated exit strategy.
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Originally published on France 24 on 3/3/2026