No, invading Iran has been a decades long goal and project for the US.

distract from the Epstein files that could take him down.

Take him down how? By impeachment? AGAIN? MAGA would still support him.

"Carpet bombing a city is just a distraction from having drone strike'd some guy's house" kind of argument, and it only gets more ridiculous every time it is used as the number of new crimes attempted to being swept under the rug by redirecting to old crimes grows more numerous, and who does this even work on anyways? Who is going to seriously ignore new crimes, worse, even bigger crimes, because some asshole (or a fed, who knows) tried the shittiest attention redirection attempt again for the trillionth time?

Edit: you know what could bring him down? And Biden, Harris, and really just all of these Capitalist parasites really... A REVOLUTION! And yes it is absolutely possible, but it needs understanding and knowledge of how it is done (Read Marxist Leninist Theory!) and solidarity across the working class, and organization (like being either a Member of at least part of the Action Network of the PSL so that learning and experience and "not doing it alone" can be accrued)