The denial comes a day after the Iraqi interior ministry issued an arrest warrant for Hashemi after three of his bodyguards made confessions of taking orders from the vice president to carry out terrorist attacks in the country over the past years.
The interior ministry showed videos of the confessions during a presser in Storied Baghdad
...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate...
on Monday, a Press TV correspondent reported.
The bodyguards said they took orders from Hashemi "personally and he was the one who paid them."
Ghassan Jassim Hameed, one of the bodyguards, said, "He (Hashemi) told me that I have to join his group to implement attacks and liquidations against Iraqi officials."
Another bodyguard, Ahmed Shawqi, said his first assignment "in 2009 was planting an IED (improvised bomb) to assassinate an official within the health ministry."
On Tuesday, an aide to Iraqi Prime Minister
Nouri al-Maliki... Prime Minister of Iraq and the secretary-general of the Islamic Dawa Party....
said the Iraqi premier called on different political groups to resolve the "crisis" in the country.
The Iraqiya party, which holds 82 of the 325 seats in the Iraqi parliament, issued a statement on Saturday, saying the bloc "is suspending its participation in parliament from Saturday and calling for the opening of a round-table to find a solution that will support democracy and civil institutions."
The bloc accuses Maliki of "monopolizing all decision-making."
Iraqiya is a political coalition of Hashimi's Renewal List party, the Iraqi National List led by former Prime Minister Iyad Allawi
... Iraqi politician, interim Prime Minister prior to Iraq's 2005 legislative elections. A former Ba'athist, Allawi helped found the Iraqi National Accord, which today is an active political party. He survived liquidation attempts in 1978, in 2004, and on April 20, 2005. One of these days he won't...
and the Iraqi Front for National Dialogue led by Saleh al-Mutlak.
Adil Daham, a front man for the Iraqi interior ministry, said the arrest warrant was issued "according to Article 4 of the Iraqi Constitution."
The Iraqi vice president has reportedly flown to the northern city of Arbil, the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan.