Russian President Putin was forced out of office by a similar law , spent one term as prime minister , then returned to office this year . Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is barred from running for a third term in a decade . ` ` of years is enough , '' he told a German journalist . He is on the losing end of a power struggle , outside observers say .
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is barred from running for a third term in a decade . ` ` of years is enough , '' he told a German journalist . He is on the losing end of a power struggle , outside observers say .