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. Archila was ‘reprimanded.’ The meeting was canceled. And Mamdani’s office is now claiming he didn’t know about it. That’s the most charitable interpretation available, and it still isn’t particularly reassuring. Either the mayor of New York City has zero control over what his own senior officials are doing with Iran’s UN ambassador — or he knew about it and is lying. Neither option inspires confidence in a man who already claimed to have been “briefed” on the Venezuela operation, then humiliatingly had to admit he had no federal security clearance whatsoever.
This isn’t the first time the State Department has had to slam the brakes on Mamdani’s international freelancing
Last month, his administration planned a meeting with leftist Colombian President Gustavo Petro — a man who attended a Mamdani rally in September. The State Department declined to issue Petro a visa. The meeting was canceled. And Archila separately took a two-day taxpayer-funded trip to Barcelona to attend a conference hosted by the Party of European Socialists. The pattern is not subtle. Mamdani has assembled an administration that shares his instinct to conduct independent foreign policy — cozying up to America’s adversaries and ideological fellow travelers while treating America’s closest allies as criminals. He opposed Operation Epic Fury from day one. He called the Iran strikes “an illegal act of war.” He wants to arrest Netanyahu. And his team was on their way to a quiet meeting with Tehran’s man at the UN. No member of this administration should ever receive a federal security clearance. That conclusion was obvious before this story broke. It is now beyond argument.
The State Department stopped this one. The question is what they haven’t caught yet
