Imam Khamenei’s Adviser: Trump’s Plan Just a Deception

By Staff, Agencies

A senior adviser to Leader of the Islamic Revolution His Eminence Imam Sayyed Ali Khamenei said US President Donald Trump’s so-called "deal of the century" is not a real deal, but a deception.

“This is not a deal, but a deception and treason,” Ali Akbar Velayati, Imam Khamenei’s adviser on international affairs, told a forum held in Tehran on the eve of the 41st anniversary of the Islamic Revolution on Monday.

Trump unveiled the outlines of the plot on January 28 after withholding any details for years.

His ploy featured annexation of the settlements that the Zionist regime has illegally built in the West Bank since occupying the Palestinian territory in 1967. The scheme also endorsed US recognition of occupied al-Quds in the West Bank as the entity’s “capital.”

The unveiling ceremony was held with Zionist Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at Trump’s side and in the absence of Palestinian representatives who have unanimously rejected the plan.

Velayati said the US came up with the deal after the regional resistance movement frustrated all of US and ‘Israeli’ plots. The plan is “doomed to failure” as it tramples on the Palestinians’ obvious right to self-determination, he added.

“This is another tainted page of history, which will be closed by God Almighty’s grace and assistance,” the adviser noted.

Velayati reiterated Imam Khamenei’s solution for the issue of Palestine, saying the only political and democratic way out of the current situation consists of a referendum partaken by all of the people of Palestine.