'Military dwarf' Iran 'playing with fire' by launching attack on Israel Iran launched an unprecedented attack on Israel late Saturday less than two weeks after a suspected Israeli strike in Syria killed two Iranian generals. "Iran is a military dwarf compared to Israel so there is no way that it would be able to fight off a military attack by Israel into Iran. So they're really playing with fire by launching this attack for the first time from Iranian territory into Israel," FRANCE 24's Philip Turle said in an analysis.