Zarghami posted on Instagram And stated that Talabani "did not change even when he became president of Iraq, but rather became more modest, and this is an important lesson that Iranian officials should learn from."
Talking about a meeting with Mam Jalal, the Iranian official praised him and stated that Talabani said to me jokingly that he was "Shinni" (a combination of the words Shiites and Sunnis, two Islamic sects), to confirm the necessity of rapprochement between the Islamic sects, Shafaq news reported.
The Iraqi Kurdish leader and ex-Iraqi president Jalal Talabani died on 2017at age 83, a week after Iraq’s autonomous Kurdish region held a referendum on independence.
Talabani, a veteran leader of the Kurdish struggle for self-determination, stepped down as president in 2014, after a long period of treatment following a stroke in 2012.
He was the first non-Arab president of Iraq, elected in 2005, two years after the U.S.-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein, a Sunni Arab.
One of Talabani’s sons, Qubad, is the current deputy prime minister of the autonomous Kurdish region in northern Iraq.
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