A few days after Iran's unprecedented drone and missile attack against Israel, FRANCE 24 spoke to former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak. The Iranian attack was largely repelled and as such is a "dramatic failure", Barak said. As a result, he believes "there is no need and no will to go into full-scale war" with Iran. "Israel will very probably respond on Iranian soil", he predicted, but "in a way that will be calibrated in order to avoid it from deteriorating into full-scale war".
Ehud Barak, who was prime minister from 1999 to 2001, also served as defence minister and Israel's army chief of staff. Speaking to FRANCE 24 from Tel Aviv, he strongly criticised the current Israeli leadership over its strategy both vis-à-vis Iran and Gaza.
