Nasser Hejazi his nomination for 2005 presidential election. He was rejected by the Guardian Council of the Constitution of Islamic Republic of Iran, arguing his lack of political career prior to the election. Later on, he became a supporter of Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani. In 2009 presidential election, he supported Mir-Hossein Mousavi. He was an opponent to the Economic reform plan of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's Government. In April 2011, he made a statement regarding the plan: "I'm very sorry for our people, they have oil, petroleum and ... but some of them are poor". It is known that after this comment, he
Mohammad Hossein Jalali Jalali was appointed by Ali Khamenei as deputy chief of staff of the armed forces for logistics, research and industry. Mohammad Hossein Jalali Mohammad Hossein Jalali is an Iranian military official who served as minister of defense. Jalali was appointed minister of defense in October 1985 to the cabinet headed by Prime Minister Mir Hossein Mousavi. He replaced Mohammad Salimi as defense minister. Jalali was in office until August 1989. Jalali was a brigadier general and the commander of the Aerospace Force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. He was appointed to this post in January 1992, replacing Hossein Dehghan.