Iran's fundamentalist government has given way to a less hardline administration, friendly to the West.

Does the rule of law exist or is the unofficial Islamic fundamentalist government in charge?

On the surface, the failures of the fundamentalist Government and its drive toward even greater extremism appear somewhat contradictory.

To the outraged outside world, the act encapsulated the horrors of the Islamic fundamentalist government.

The Libyan paid-for regime change resulted in a fundamentalist government.

Western diplomats say they expect the regime to fall eventually to a fundamentalist government, which would shake up North Africa's politics.

In Iran, for example, though it has a fundamentalist Government, women take an active part in family planning and other international programs.

Iran is stating its preference for a fundamentalist Islamic government in Kabul.

"But if the conditions in Iraq are still as they are now, I think even the educated, secular people will vote for a fundamentalist government."

The famine is the result of a long-running civil war between the fundamentalist Islamic Government and a southern rebel group.