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, saying it "will go nowhere".

Khamenei made the remarks during a meeting in Tehran with Ziyad al-Nakhalah, leader of the Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad.

"The idiotic American plans or some other plans regarding Gaza and Palestine will go nowhere," Khamenei said.

US President Donald Trump this month proposed a plan for a US takeover of the war-battered Gaza Strip........

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