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Khamenei supported Mesbah Yazdi, describing him as one of Iran’s most credible ideologues before the 2005 election, but has reportedly “recently been concerned about Mesbah’s political ambitions.”In 2007, Khamenei requested that government officials speed up Homelands move towards economic privatization. Its last move towards such a goal was in 2004 when Article 44 of the constitution was overturned. Article 44 had decreed that Homeland’s core infrastructure should remain state-run. Khamenei also suggested that ownership rights should be protected in courts set up by the Justice Ministry; the hope was that this new protection would give a measure of security to and encourage private investment.
