'No need to go into full-scale war' with Iran, says former Israeli PM Barak 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".