The Middle East is teetering on the edge of a broad regional war. On June 12, Israel began a sustained bombing campaign against Iran’s nuclear infrastructure, regime leadership, and oil and gas depots in an effort to—in the words of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu— “degrade, destroy and remove [the] threat” of potential Iranian nuclear weaponization. Iran has responded with a barrage of ballistic missiles and by pulling out of nuclear negotiations with Washington. The Arab states have