But it would be hard to pigeonhole him as a moderate or a hardliner.
Mr Fallahian is the only real hardliner among the nine other candidates competing with Mohammad Khatami.
Mr Trimble was elected party leader as a hardliner, essentially to block any attempts at compromise.
The oddity is that Mr Advani had always been seen as a Hindutva hardliner.
He is a left-wing hardliner and organiser of his party's blockade of government legislation in the Bundesrat.
But Mr Sharon, the settlers' friend and the invader of Lebanon, is still a hardliner, especially these days regarding Syria.
Ariel Sharon, a leading cabinet hardliner, was quick to declare that peremptory action by the prime minister could bring down the government.
Another hardliner, Vladimir Seks , the deputy speaker, looks a better prospect.
Perhaps, unlike Mr Peres, Mr Netanyahu is already enough of a hardliner not to feel the need for a pre-election show of martial macho.
All the same, it says much about Israel's mood that a hardliner cruising for re-election feels the need to accept the principle of Palestinian statehood.
"That Suharto is promoting a hardliner like this shows that he feels there is a serious threat to his power that he cannot see, " says political scientist Arief Budiman.
As the reality of Hamas' win set in, American and Israeli leaders -- including hardliner Benjamin Netanyahu, who is running for Israeli prime minister -- began sharing their concerns.
Mr Clarke, who had spoken of his dislike of harsh penal policies, was replaced as justice secretary by Chris Grayling, a relative hardliner who is already being encouraged to stand up to European human-rights judges.
In addition to Mousavi, two other challengers -- former parliament speaker Mahdi Karoudi, another reformist, and hardliner Mohsen Rezaei, secretary of Iran's Expediency Council -- are hoping to unseat Ahmadinejad in the June 12 election.
Similarly, the current public discussion of zero U.S. troop presence in Afghanistan after 2014 will encourage those hardliner elements of the Taliban who have no interest in a negotiated settlement and believe they can simply wait the Americans out.
Mr Trimble, who was elected party leader in September 1995 as a hardliner because he repudiated a compromise between Orange marchers and Catholics, must now go back this April 18th to the body which chose him to urge acceptance of a compromise.
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