The most chilling piece of information that I learned as I met with senior officials in Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates and Israel is just how close Tehran is to being able to build nuclear weapons.

Each of these countries – along with the United States, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and other nations in the region – has long been deeply concerned about the threat posed by the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Especially since Iranian leaders are actively fomenting terrorist attacks against their neighbors and have openly talked about destroying the U.S. and “wiping Israel off the map.”