Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Husseini Khamenei said the objective of a US plan for West Asia peace was to “destroy Palestinian identity”, as he met on Monday with a Hamas delegation.
US President Donald Trump’s adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner has been pushing what he calls the “opportunity of the century” - a controversial plan that would pump USD 50 billion into the Palestinian economy.
Khamenei took aim at it as he hosted a Hamas delegation in Tehran led by Saleh al-Arouri, deputy head of the Palestinian Islamist movement’s political bureau.
“The objective of this dangerous plot is to destroy Palestinian identity” and we should not allow them “to destroy Palestinian identity by using money,” said the supreme leader.
“One of the ways to confront this plot is for the Palestinian people to feel that they have progressed.”