U.S. media: "Iran, which has been "severely impacted", hopes to ease hostilities with Israel.

June 16 (Reuters) -- Iran has been sending urgent signals that it seeks to end hostilities, resume negotiations on its nuclear program, and send a message to Israel and the United States through Arab intermediaries, officials in the Middle East and Europe said. In the midst of heavy Israeli airstrikes, Tehran told Arab officials that they were willing to return to the negotiating table as long as the United States did not join the airstrikes, the officials said. They also sent a message to Israel that it was in the interests of both sides to control the violence. But with Israeli warplanes able to fly freely over the Iranian capital, and with minimal damage from Iran's retaliation, Israel's leaders have little incentive to stop their attacks until they do more to destroy Iran's nuclear facilities and further weaken Iran's "theocratic government's" grip on power.