A senior official in New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration set up a meeting with Iran’s ambassador to the UN, before the State Department intervened.
Commissioner Ana Maria Archila, leader of the Mamdani administration’s Office of International Affairs, was ready to meet Amir-Saeid Iravani on Tuesday, until the State Department prevented the meeting.
State Department officials then met with representatives from the mayor’s office to clarify acceptable diplomatic conduct.
A State Department official told Fox News Digital in a statement, “We appreciate the mayor understanding the value of diplomacy, and for his decision to cancel this meeting. It is unconscionable that a New York City official would even consider meeting with the Iranian Ambassador to the U.N., a man who consistently works to undermine U.S. interests and whitewash his regime’s crimes against the United States, our allies, and Iran’s own citizens.”
This is now the second time in the last few weeks the Trump administration has had to nix plans by representatives of Mamdani to meet with foreign officials.
In June, a meeting with Colombian President Gustavo Petro was cancelled after the State Department objected.
President Trump has called Petro an “illegal drug leader,” said he is “low-rated and unpopular” and also warned that if he doesn’t do something about the drug trade, he could be replaced in the same manner as Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.
According to Fox, “Archila, the official who planned to meet with the Iranian representative, served as the co-director of New York’s progressive Working Families party prior to her appointment as commissioner. She had no prior diplomatic experience before taking the role, and in 2022 ran for lieutenant governor of New York.
“Archila made headlines in 2018 when she confronted former Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., outside a Senate elevator after he announced he would vote to confirm Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
“She identified herself as a sexual assault victim and asked him why he would vote to confirm Kavanaugh after hearing the account of Christine Blasey Ford, who claimed Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her when they were teenagers.”
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I wo der if Mamdani is looking for ways to smuggle Iranans into New York.
The new Democrat Communist Party’s entire agenda is to undermine and disrupt the Constitution, the United States government in it’s current form and freedoms of American citizens. The DCP has been very transparent about this agenda with each victory of their new party members. It is no secret. He already has high rise buildings ready to crumble in NYC, just wait another year and see what that hellscape looks like with the rampant corruption.