Despite ongoing airstrikes inside Iran, Israel has signalled it wants to wind down its offensive within days, The Wall Street Journal reported. 

Arab officials quoted by the report said the US has asked Arab partners to relay the message to Iran that Israel is looking to wrap up the operation soon. However, according to the officials, Iran still feels it has to respond to US strikes on Sunday.

“Iran still feels it must answer Sunday’s U.S. strikes,” one Gulf official said.

Israel's Channel 12 reported that Israel believes it has already achieved most of its war aims and could declare victory unilaterally if Iran stops firing missiles. An alternative, viewed in Jerusalem as less desirable, would be a U.S. announcement of a mutually agreed ceasefire.

“We’re happy to end this now, provided there is an agreement that Iran dismantles its nuclear programme,” an Israeli official told The Times of Israel. “It depends on Iran, not on us.”

Israeli intelligence assessments cited by the news outlet Walla contend that Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei remains the main obstacle to any de-escalation. Should Iran continue launching missiles, Israeli officials warned, the air force will escalate attacks “with a focus on undermining the regime.”

Monday’s raid on regime targets in central Tehran was meant as “a preview of what could come,” Walla quoted security sources as saying.

Israeli officials told The Wall Street Journal they hope the combined U.S.-Israeli pressure will push Iran back to the negotiating table. They added that if Tehran tries to rebuild its nuclear infrastructure, Israel “will not hesitate” to strike again.