Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that the joint US-Israeli operation against Iran that began today "will create the conditions for the courageous Iranian people to take their destiny into their own hands," Reuters reported, quoted by BTA.
"The time has come for all segments of Iranian society to free themselves from the regime's tyranny and create a free and peaceful Iran," Netanyahu added in a statement.
"Under no circumstances should this murderous terrorist regime be allowed to acquire nuclear weapons, which would give it the ability to threaten all of humanity," Netanyahu's video message to the Israeli population, quoted by Agence France-Presse, also said.
The Israeli prime minister called on Israelis to "unite" to guarantee the "eternity of Israel," the British newspaper The Telegraph added. The publication notes that just hours before the strikes began, Oman said Iran had agreed not to stockpile enriched uranium.
Oman's Foreign Minister Badr bin Hamad Al Busaidi described this as a "significant breakthrough" - just hours before US and Israeli strikes hit several Iranian cities.
"The most important achievement, in my opinion, is the agreement that Iran will never have nuclear material to build a bomb", the Omani foreign minister said after mediating the third round of indirect talks between the US and Iran.
"If the ultimate goal is to ensure forever that Iran cannot have a nuclear bomb, I think we have solved this problem through these talks by agreeing to a very important breakthrough that has never been achieved before," he stressed.
The Omani diplomat said he believed that all issues in the Iran-US agreement could be resolved "in a peaceful and comprehensive manner" within a few months.
"A peace agreement is within our reach... if we just give diplomacy the space it needs to achieve it," he added.