However, a small but increasing number of conservative thinkers - while not democrats - advocate a more pragmatic and conciliatory approach, essentially adopting the language that once worked so well for the now-beleaguered reformists. "It's better for all of us that mainstream conservatives go to parliament, people who are not extremist but pragmatic and moderate," according to the influential newspaper editor Amir Mohebian, who is emerging as the face of Iranian "compassionate conservatism."