Yes, very different situations. If for no other reason than that in one situation every involved party had consented. Including Iran, tacitly.

The reason it was “de-escalatory”: It helped Iran prove what it sought to prove: no AD in the world will stop their missiles from getting through. For Israel it provided the face-saving “99.9%”.

Also, the Ukraine situation has no Jordan, Iraq, accessible ocean (ask the Turks about that) to operate from.