Ahmadinejad Accused of Putin-like Power Grab

Iran’s president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has said he does not want to run for president after his current term ends, but an Iranian lawmaker accused him of planning a Vladimir Putin-like power grab in 2017 to exploit a loophole in the country’s constitutional limit.
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Ahmadinejad Accused of Putin-like Power Grab
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (BEHROUZ MEHRI/AFP/GettyImages)
9/6/2012
Updated:
10/1/2015
<a><img class="size-large wp-image-1782285" title="151026967" src="https://www.theepochtimes.com/assets/uploads/2015/09/151026967.jpg" alt="Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad waves as he walks into a room for his meetings on the sidelines of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) summit in Tehran on August 31, 2012. UN chief Ban Ki-moon has called on Iran to free all its political prisoners, in a speech obtained by AFP and delivered in Tehran on the sidelines of a Non-Aligned Movement summit. (BEHROUZ MEHRI/AFP/GettyImages)" width="590" height="384"/></a>
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad waves as he walks into a room for his meetings on the sidelines of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) summit in Tehran on August 31, 2012. UN chief Ban Ki-moon has called on Iran to free all its political prisoners, in a speech obtained by AFP and delivered in Tehran on the sidelines of a Non-Aligned Movement summit. (BEHROUZ MEHRI/AFP/GettyImages)