Mamdani Smacked Down By State Dept. After His Team Tried to Meet With Iran’s Ambassador

Time and again, Zohran Mamdani has demonstrated that he has no business serving as a leader in any capacity in any position in America. The New York City mayor’s socialist politics put him at odds with our founding principles of democracy and republicanism, capitalism and liberty. Which explains why he continues to coddle up to America’s enemies.

Like Iran.

The mayor of New York City has vowed to arrest Benjamin Netanyahu — the democratically elected Prime Minister of America’s closest ally in the Middle East — if he ever sets foot in New York City. That same mayor’s administration just got caught quietly scheduling a meeting with the United Nations ambassador of the regime that has killed thousands of Americans, funds global terrorism, and spent decades threatening to wipe Israel off the map.

This is not a coincidence. This is a worldview.

City Journal broke the story: Commissioner Ana María Archila, Mamdani’s top official for international affairs, had a meeting scheduled with Iran’s UN Ambassador Amir-Saeid Iravani on July 7th at 11 a.m. — two other senior Mamdani officials were also on the calendar invite. The State Department was not informed. The meeting was only canceled after federal officials caught wind of it, sat the Mamdani administration down, and explained in terms apparently requiring elaboration that secretly scheduling meetings with the representative of a hostile foreign government is not acceptable conduct for a city official.