Mr. Jalal Talibani’s deputy, Patriotic Union’s deputy of Kurdistan or the representative of Kurdistan region I have faced many events which each is a memory worth to be mentioned. One of those interesting events memorized even by today refers to Mr. Khatami’s presidential period. In those days, a meeting was held with the presence of Mr. Khatami and Jalal Talibani accompanied by me as the representative of Patriotic Union of Kurdistan. Actually I don’t remember the exact time, it was earliest months of Mr. Khatami’s presidential period, on the other hand Talibani was not the president of Iraq yet, he traveled to Iran as the head of Kurdistan party of Iraq.

In that meeting after much talking Mr. Khatami said: I pray for Mr. Talibani, God willing, to be the president of Iraq and for the second time to visit him in this position. We don’t know Mr. Khatami predicted or desired this; however, it came true. After a while and many different events in Iraq, Mr. Talibani got Iraq president. After two presidential periods of Mr. Khatami, Mr. Talibani, again accompanied by me, came to Tehran as the president and met Mr. Khatami in Sa’adabad Palace. After talk and lunch, Mr. Talibani turned to Mr. Khatami and said him to pray for him to see what might happened.

Mr. Khatami answered: one pray was enough, as you got the president of Iraq and came to Iran, it is so great.