NYC Mayor Plays the Fool After State Dept. Shut Down Mamdani Official's Meeting With Iranian Ambassador

RedState reported Thursday on an insane but fairly predictable story involving New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani's administration, Iran's United Nations ambassador, and how a meeting was set up between the ambassador and a Mamdani official that was supposed to take place on Tuesday. 

As first detailed by City Journal, Commissioner Ana María Archila from Mamdani's Office for International Affairs "was scheduled to meet with Amir-Saeid Iravani, Iran’s permanent representative to the United Nations, at 2 United Nations Plaza, alongside two other senior officials in the Mayor’s Office for International Affairs on July 7 at 11 a.m."

The attempted meeting got shut down by the State Department once they learned of it, according to the report, with it also being noted that "Archila allegedly did not inform Mayor Mamdani of the meeting; she was reprimanded for the move and directed to cancel the meeting."

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READ MORE: State Dept Responds Accordingly to News of Mamdani Official's Plan to Meet With Iran's UN Ambassador

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In an update to this story, Mamdani himself has been asked about it, and he is alleging that the meeting was not sought by his administration, and that he personally had no knowledge of it:

A defensive Mayor Zohran Mamdani tried to downplay his international affairs commissioner’s boneheaded attempted meeting with the anti-US Iranian ambassador — as he faced heat from aghast GOP lawmakers Friday.

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He repeatedly stressed the sitdown never took place and chalked it up to a scheduling snafu.

“The commissioner recognizes that this was made in error and we’re working on a new process in terms of new meeting requests,” he told reporters at an unrelated event. 

“Again, this was a request that came into the office, not one that originated from the office.”

Firstly, I'd love to see proof that the first point of contact regarding this near-meeting was Iran and not Mamdani's office, because I don't believe that this meeting wasn't first pursued by the Mamdani administration. Second, I'm not buying that he wasn't in the loop, considering his reaction to the start of Operation Epic Fury in late February, declaring that the strikes "mark a catastrophic escalation in an illegal act of war of aggression,” while adding that "bombing cities, killing civilians, opening up a new theater of war — Americans do not want this."

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Further, Mamdani has made it very clear that his loyalties do not rest with the United States, and he has basically acted as sort of a shadow diplomat since taking office in January on the grounds that the Big Apple is a world-famous city and that they need to maintain good relations with other countries, though it's strange how the ones you hear about most often usually involve socialist or Islamic regimes.

But there is a lot more at play than merely keeping up friendly "international relations," something that was perhaps best explained by Republican NYC Councilwoman Vickie Paladino, who has both Mamdani's and the Democratic Socialists of America's (DSA) numbers:

I've said this before and I'll say it again.

We are in a soft secession under Zohran. He considers New York an independent city-state with its own foreign policy, immigration policy, and economic policy. He does not recognize the authority of the federal government except to the extent he can extract money or political wins from it.

The intent is to use the resources and authority of New York City to wage war against the federal government and the rest of the country. The DSA is quite open about it. They're telling us what they plan to do, and Zohran is executing.

Colluding with the Iranians was just another means to that end. They will collude with any and all of our enemies, because the stated goal of the DSA is to dismantle the country from within. Again, they say all of this out loud. No inferences necessary here.

In this particular case, the meeting with the Iranians was sidelined by the State Department. But the intention is crystal clear, and just because a high-profile meeting was stopped doesn't mean there isn't back channel communication and cooperation happening between the DSA/Mamdani admin and the Iranians. Obviously there is. Meetings like this don't just materialize out of thin air, and ties between the DSA and Iranian-linked fronts like the People's Forum are too many to count.

Now what are we actually going to do about this?

We're WAY past the point that it can honestly be argued that the DSA isn't an insurgency determined to bring down the country. I really think it requires a military solution now; take this out of the corrupt civil court system and use the military to roll up the DSA and charge them as revolutionary insurgents. Do it while we still can and avoid inevitable future bloodshed.

She sure did not pull any punches. Do you agree with her suggestion of a military solution to deal with the DSA?