Tehran: Iraqi President Jalal Talabani has come out of coma after suffering a stroke in December, Iran`s Fars news agency reported.
"President Talabani has come back from a coma," Fars cited sources close to the president`s medical team as saying.
Officials in Baghdad, however, did not initially confirm the report, Fars said.
Talabani, an iconic figure representing Iraq`s Kurdish population in the government, was taken to a Baghdad hospital after his stroke and was flown to Germany for further medical treatment a few days later.
Iraq`s presidential office denied media reports that Talabani had died in a Baghdad hospital a week after the stroke.
Meantime, Talabani`s wife Hiro Ahmed Ibrahim and a delegation from Talabani`s Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) party have reached Tehran for bllateral talks with Iranian officials, Fars said.
Talabani`s recovery will play a key role in soothing ongoing ethnic and sectarian unrests in Iraq, according to observers.
IANS
