TEHRAN, Dec 10 (Reuters) - Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh accused President Mahmoud Abbas of trying to force his Hamas movement out of government entirely, and said early Palestinian elections would exacerbate tension. Aides to Abbas said on Saturday he was planning to call early elections, seeing little point in further talks on a government to replace a Hamas-led coalition boycotted by the West. Haniyeh, currently on an official visit to Iran, a key backer of Hamas, blamed the breakdown on Abbas. "Unfortunately, the talks did not succeed because of the hostility and stubbornness of the brothers that are in the Palestinian leadership," he told Iranian state television late on Saturday. "They want the entire state and government to be entirely in the hands of non-Hamas people," he said. His comments in Arabic were translated into Farsi by Iranian television. Hamas defeated Abbas's Fatah in January elections for the Palestinian parliament and formed a government in March. Hamas has refused to bow to Western demands it recognise the state of Israel, renounce violence and accept existing interim peace accords with the Jewish state, Haniyeh, said pressure from Abbas to accept the Western demands made Hamas realise that "they do not want the formation of a national unity government; they want to expel Hamas from the government". "We believe in national unity and the formation of a Palestinian national unity government. At the same time, we will not accept by any means any pressure that is exerted from either inside or outside Palestine," he said. He added that early elections would "trample on the wishes of the people" and would "increase the tensions and have a negative effect on the whole Palestinian situation". Two Palestinian parliamentary guards were wounded in an exchange of fire at the legislature's building in the Gaza Strip in the latest incident of violence fuelled by growing chaos. Haniyeh was due to meet Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and address students at Tehran University on Sunday, the final day of a four-day visit during to the Islamic state.
