Hamas hasasked Iran to allow the organization to escalate its altercations with Israel ,carry out more suicide attacks and if need be – threaten kidnapped IDF soldier Gilad Shalit withexecution, Kuwait's Al-Jarida newspaper reported Friday.
The report, citing senior Hamas officials, Hamas politburo chief Khaled Mashaal recently met with a senior Iranian intelligence official, who accompanied Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad onhis visit to Qatar last week.
The two reportedly discussed Hamas' retaliation to a possible large-scale IDF operation in Gaza ,which may leave Hamas debilitated.
Mashaal, said the report, told the Iranians Hamas will need their political support, as well as Iran and Syria's go-aheadto carry out a series of major attacks on Israel.
Al-Jarida further reported that Mashaal told the Iranians Hamas wants to kidnap more Israeli soldiers, as well as threaten Gilad Shalit's well-being in order to "stir Israeli public opinion, pressure Prime Minister Ehud Olmert andhinder the Israeli-Palestinian peace process."