But Mr Khatami's hardline rivals in the Iranian leadership may not approve his unequivocal support for Mr Karzai.
But the PAD's backers include several hardline generals who are determined to topple the prime minister.
Tunisia has seen numerous clashes between the authorities and hardline Islamists since the uprising in 2011.
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Some have hardline Islamist ideologies and have become notorious for imposing Islamic law restrictions.
Tunisia has seen numerous clashes between the authorities and hardline Salafists since the uprising in 2011.
Figures alone might suggest that Mr Zhang (a hardline Han Chinese) is making headway.
Hussein is a hardline member of the so-called Rejectionist Front, which wants to destroy Israel.
The world will be a better place without Gadhafi and his fellow hardline rulers.
Pakistani girls' education has long been hampered by widespread poverty and threats by hardline Islamist groups.
The militants have a history of using violence to enforce their hardline views on women.
Police in Pakistan say they have detained 250 members of the hardline Sunni Muslim group, Sipah-e-Sahaba.
But there is something more profound going on here than just the assumption of hardline positions.
Some argue that a ban would play into the hands of those who spread hardline propaganda.
He could have become the darling of the hardline Cuban exiles, but rejected that.
The hardline military junta took power in Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, in 1962.
Belaid had criticized the government, saying it was not doing enough to take on hardline Salafists.
On the other hand, if he were free, he could mobilise hardline support against the government.
Since the revolution, television sermons by hardline Salafi preachers targeting Christians are becoming more common.
Or was it a massive fraud perpetrated on the people by the hardline clerics?
It was energetically publicised (albeit in caustic terms) by two Salafist (hardline Islamist) television channels.
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This time, the festival has been criticised by both hardline Muslim and Hindu groups.
Even Ian Paisley, leader of the hardline Democratic Unionist Party, has not gone that far.
Alas: despite all this, Mrs Plavsic was defeated in September by a hardline rival, Nikola Poplasen.
He wants Mr Netanyahu to swap his hardline partners for Tzipi Livni's centrist Kadima party.
In Wisconsin the unions have rallied thousands of supporters against Scott Walker, the hardline Republican governor.
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That is what hardline nationalists in India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) would like to do.
However hardline Ulster Unionist Jeffrey Donaldson said the latest IRA statement should not change party policy.
Since their tentative early days, the Emes have coalesced into a fraternity for hardline criminals.
Even the ultra-hardline Democratic Unionists, led by the Reverend Ian Paisley, are quietly shifting.
As a result, those now calling the shots in Gaza are from the group's hardline wing.
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