Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Tuesday dismissed a proposal by the United States to displace Palestinians from the war-devastated Gaza Strip, stating that it “will go nowhere.”
Khamenei made this remark during a meeting in Tehran with Ziyad al-Nakhalah, leader of the Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad.
“The idiotic American plans or any other plans regarding Gaza and Palestine will go nowhere,” Khamenei said.
It should be recalled that earlier this month, US President Donald Trump proposed a plan for a US takeover of the war-battered Gaza Strip, with Palestinian inhabitants to be relocated elsewhere, including to Egypt and Jordan.
The proposal sparked an outcry from Arab governments, including Egypt and Jordan, as well as from world leaders. The United Nations also warned against ethnic cleansing in Palestinian territory.
“No plan will be completed without the consent of the resistance and the people of Gaza,” Khamenei added.
Iran has already rejected Trump’s plan for Gaza, condemning it as an “unprecedented attack on international law and the UN Charter.”
