Iraq’s vice president says that Iran is “definitely” behind Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s move to jail him on terror charges, saying it is “not a coincidence” that his arrest warrant was announced the day after the last U.S. troops left Iraq.
“Definitely Iran was involved,” Tariq al-Hashemitold The Washington Times in an exclusive interview, speaking by phone late Wednesday from a Kurdish town in northern Iraq. “My dear friend, they have … staff now in the government and in the parliament. They are representing Iran.”
Mr. al-Hashemi said he has been a consistent critic of the “intervention of Iran in every respect of my country.”
Full story: Iraq’s vice president accuses Iran of being involved in his arrest warrant – Washington Times.