(VOA News) Jamie Dettmer - Aides to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu say they believe he has made progress in persuading Western powers that they need to do more to counter Iranian influence in the Middle East and contain Tehran's military ambitions in the region. Last week Netanyahu met with national leaders in Berlin, Paris and London. "We didn't expect to change minds totally," said an Israeli diplomat. "But we are chipping away and when it came to the issues of Iran's ballistic missile development and Tehran's meddling in the region and military entrenchment in Syria and the threat to Israel, we got sympathetic hearings from Merkel, Macron and May."
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