Mashregh News, the hardliners' hardline website, took aim at several reformist dailies for their choice of headlines regarding the supreme leader's speech – Bahar, Aftab, and Shargh each ran the headline "We Trust in Heroic Flexibility in Diplomacy," while Etemaad went with "Tactical Application of Heroic Flexibility".
He obtained crucial public backing from Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, keeping powerful hardline critics at bay.
But the comprehensive nature of this about-face on media deregulation points to hardline convictions at the top.
There had been fears in Downing Street that May might campaign to leave the EU after a hardline speech at last year's party conference.
Varshney believes Modi's landslide win will give him both a "long honeymoon" with voters and the legitimacy to hold the hardline nationalists at bay.
Peace was illusory, they said; the hardline Islamists at the core of Bashir's regime had no intention of sharing either power or wealth.
Echoes of hardline language at the time of Tiananmen.A rare criticism of the government's approach appeared this week on the website of the state-run news agency, Xinhua, in an article by a scholar in Singapore.
Indeed, a question from a hardline journalist at yesterday's press conference provided further evidence of a deeper agenda being pursued by Ahmadinejad with the apparent full support of the supreme leader, Ali Khamenei.
By seemingly bowing to pressure from the masses, and even agreeing to pray with hardline leaders at the last mass protest this December, President Joko Widodo has set a dangerous precedent, argue some analysts.
The prospects of the UK government pursuing a hard Brexit, basing trade with the EU on World Trade Organisation tariffs and bilateral deals, appears to have jumped following the hardline rhetoric at this week's Conservative conference in Birmingham.
