By late evening on July 8th, the Ansar, which is backed by hardline forces within the government, had taken control and sealed off Revolution Square, sending the protesters fleeing.
"Step by step, we will build confidence between our presidents and our countries," Rouhani said " With sufficient will on both sides – and I assure you that on Iran's side the will is 100% – the nuclear file will be resolved in a short period of time". Rouhani rejected suggestions that his flexibility at the negotiating table was constrained by hardline forces back in Iran.
Western diplomats suspect Iran has in the past sent some of its Revolutionary Guards, a hardline force that works in parallel with the army, to advise the Iraqi army or its militia allies.
Jean-Claude Mailly, head of the more hardline union Force Ouvrière (Workers' Force), sounded a conciliatory note on the work law changes.
The ban will remain in place at other levels of education and in public offices.The changes, which were approved in parliament with a solid majority on February 9th, will cause tensions with hardline secularist forces.
It could be said, with hindsight, that the patrician and undoubtedly sincere O'Neill fundamentally misunderstood the depth of feeling on both sides, most crucially among the more hardline unionist forces that would soon topple him.
All strikes and labour agitation are treated as threats to national security by the Revolutionary Guards, the hardline military force that enforces Islamic discipline at home while spearheading military operations abroad.
Across the devastated capital, residents waited to see whether the victorious hardline Islamic force would end four years of factional fighting and rocket attacks that have killed up to 30,000 people.
The hardline Taliban forced women to wear burqas in public during their rule in the 1990s and concern is growing in Afghanistan and among its allies that gains for women made since the 2001 U.S.-led ouster of the Taliban are at risk.
Afrika had originally been called Avrupa [Europe] but was renamed after the north's then-hardline regime forced it to close in 2001.
Three members of the Irish National Liberation Army, Christopher McWilliams, John Kenaway and John Glennon, shot Wright, 37, leader of the hardline Loyalist Volunteer Force, on December 27 1997 in a van in the yard of what was supposedly one of western Europe's most secure jails.
