Muhammad Fuad Masum is an Iraqi Kurdish politician who served as the seventh president of Iraq from 24 July 2014 to 2 October 2018. He was elected as president following the 2014 parliamentary election. Masum is the second non-Arab president of Iraq, succeeding Jalal Talabani, also Kurdish, and was a confidant of Talabani.
Masum in 2018
Masum with US Secretary of State John Kerry at the United Nations headquarters, New York City (September 2014)
Masum with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani in Saadabad Palace
Jalal Talabani was an Iraqi politician who served as the sixth president of Iraq from 2005 to 2014, as well as the president of the Governing Council of Iraq. He was ethnically Kurdish.
Talabani in 2005
Talabani with U.S. President George W. Bush on 2 October 2007
Jalal Talabani with U.S. President Barack Obama during a visit to Camp Victory, Iraq, 7 April 2009.
Talabani between U.S. Vice President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Nuri Al-Maliki, 2011