Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has dismissed a proposal by the United States to displace Palestinians from the devastated Gaza Strip, saying it “will go nowhere”, AFP reports.

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

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

“No plan will be completed without the consent of the resistance and the people of Gaza,” Khamenei said, adding that global public opinion favoured the Palestinians.

“Those who a year and a half ago claimed they would destroy the resistance in a short period of time are now receiving their prisoners in small groups from resistance fighters,” Khamenei said.