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Those islands are just barren rock where you can't grow anything. Its a very bad deal. Also he already promised most of the people that worked there to take them back to the mainland so is he now going to tell them to forget about it and stay there. Most people won't want to settle on the iron islands.
He really shouldn't go out of his way to appease those that dislike him. Also the girl seems pretty stupid talking about Persephone when she probably haven't even met her and the fact that Persephone might care more about the MC than her despite being half sisters.