Israel and Iran have been fighting for years, with Iran generally using various intermediaries. The October 7 attacks were orchestrated and funded by Iran.
Having spent several years punishing the Gazans for it, Israel is moving on to Iran itself. It has enlisted the help of the US, who are going along with it for a variety of reasons.
One of those reasons is Ukraine. Iran has been helping arm Russia, and evade sanctions. The Ukraine war has been called "World War III" for four years now, pitting the West against a coalition of opposing forces, of which Iran has long been one.
This is the best I can do to "sanewash" it. In fact, a good chunk of it is arrogance, stupidity, warmongering, and distraction.
And the US has been talking around war with Iran ever since they were added to the Axis of Evil by GWB.
As for why, the obvious answer is distraction from the Epstein Files but apparently Trump just "had a feeling" Iran was about to attack the US and this was considered a "preemptive strike." Again, not at all outside of the MO of the nation that ginned up the Global War on Terror on entirely false pretenses.
Why wouldn't Trump start WWIII now?
In any case, it wouldn't matter if Trump was compromised or not for my comment to be true. America and Israel need a common enemy now that Epstein's connections to the Mossad are confirmed. Public support for Israel is in a freefall, and it cannot survive a war unless America convinces itself that pedophile spies are a necessary evil.