Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has criticized US President Donald Trump's plan to relocate Palestinians from the Gaza Strip to other nations, countering with the suggestion that Israelis should be resettled in Greenland.
"My suggestion is different. Instead of Palestinians, expel Israelis and send them to Greenland so they can kill two birds with one stone," Araghchi said in an exclusive interview with Sky News.
President Trump, who initially suggested acquiring Greenland in his first term, has doubled-down on the claim since returning to office.
On Saturday, the US President disclosed that he had conferred with Jordan's King Abdullah II about building housing to move over 1 million Palestinians from Gaza to neighboring nations. He also said he planned to address the same issue with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi on Sunday.
The proposal was preemptively rejected by the Ramallah-based Palestinian Authority (PA), which said it would violate its “red lines”.
"You’re talking about a million and a half people, and we just clean out that whole thing,” the US President also told reporters over the weekend.
The comments come after a ceasefire deal and hostage release negotiated jointly by the incoming Trump administration and the Biden administration between Israel and Hamas.
Nuclear negotiations would be 'more challenging' than before
Addressing the possibility of negotiations over its nuclear program, Foreign Minister Araghchi told SKY News that while Tehran is willing to hear President Trump out, reaching an agreement will be far more challenging than in 2018, when the original nuclear deal was finalized.
"The situation is different and much more difficult than the previous time," he told SKY News. "Lots of things should be done by the other side to buy our confidence… We haven't heard anything but the 'nice' word, and this is obviously not enough."
This follows President Trump’s earlier remark that it would be "nice" if the nuclear crisis could be resolved without escalating further—and without the need for Israel to launch military strikes against targets in Iran.
Iran's Foreign Minister told SKY News that any attack on Iran's nuclear facilities would trigger an immediate response, calling it "crazy" for Israel and the US to take such action.