The opinion in https://acoup.blog/2026/03/25/miscellanea-the-war-in-iran/ is interesting here.

Read the section titled 'The Gamble' if you want that opinion, but the tl;dr is that our 2025 strike against Iran ceded our ability to claim dis-involvement in Israeli strikes, and so Israel was able to draw us into this war whether we wanted to or not.