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Mamdani tries to downplay top official’s attempted meeting with Iran ambassador — as GOP pols demand answers
New York Post ^ | July 10, 2026 | Craig McCarthy and Matt Troutman

Posted on 07/10/2026 9:17:21 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican

Iran out of patience?

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.

Mamdani said he never knew about Commissioner Ana Maria Archila’s scheduled — and thwarted — confab this week with Amir-Saeid Iravani, Iran’s permanent representative to the United Nations, until he received a press inquiry about it.

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.”

The highly unusual would-be meeting between a Big Apple official and top diplomat from Iran — a nation hostile to the US even before the current war — caused President Trump’s State Department officials to intervene.

The city office already has multiple layers of checks and balances in place to avoid such a glaring gaffe, so it appears Archila would have sidestepped proper protocols to set the meeting, according to insiders.

But it also wasn’t the first time Mamdani or someone in his administration tried to meet with a controversial foreign official.

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TOPICS: Government; Iran; Politics/Elections; US: New York
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1 posted on 07/10/2026 9:17:21 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

You are being watched ,LOL


2 posted on 07/10/2026 9:43:24 PM PDT by butlerweave (Fateh)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Mamdami agreeing to meet with an Iranian ambassador speaks to how he is positioned to be a conduit for Iran’s threat against our beloved president Trump.
That Mamguy should be deported, he’s 100% enemy within.


3 posted on 07/10/2026 9:55:44 PM PDT by GreatRoad ('In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act' )
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To: MinorityRepublican

Perhaps a courier for messages to and from Mamdani?


4 posted on 07/10/2026 9:56:15 PM PDT by ryderann
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Obama lite amateur.


5 posted on 07/10/2026 10:10:24 PM PDT by proust (All posts made under this handle are, for the intents and purposes of the author, considered satire.)
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To: MinorityRepublican
But it also wasn’t the first time Mamdani or someone in his administration tried to meet with a controversial foreign official.

Who was that? The Prime Minister of Canada?

String'em up!

Regards,

6 posted on 07/10/2026 10:11:08 PM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: MinorityRepublican
"General Flynn, please pick up the white courtesy phone …"

7 posted on 07/10/2026 10:31:28 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and his mercy endures forever. — Psalm 106)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Democrats are reaching out to the theocrats and IRGC in Iran. Notice one of the congressional Democratssent a staffer to Ayatollah’s funeral as if we’re pals. They’re advising them to change their messaging to Kill Trump from Death to America.

The Dem traitos want to replace the idea that our enemy wants to Nuke us with tha.theme that everybody in the world hates Trump, especially America and Iran,and American and Iran could be friends if only Trump was dead.Now street crowds are carrying signs in English saying Kill Trump. The video news report I just saw tonight showed them saying Kill Trump in English and only chanting the usual Death to America in Farsi.


8 posted on 07/10/2026 10:48:57 PM PDT by takebackaustin (informative)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Answers Mamdami Answers—Open your mouth and let truth set you free.


9 posted on 07/10/2026 10:57:10 PM PDT by gildafarrell (To Strive, To Seek, To Find and Not To Yield!)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Can they recall in New York?


10 posted on 07/10/2026 11:03:24 PM PDT by jerod (Nazis were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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To: MinorityRepublican
The city office already has multiple layers of checks and balances in place to avoid such a glaring gaffe, so it appears Archila would have sidestepped proper protocols to set the meeting, according to insiders.

It is also possible that Mamdani approved the meeting but in a fashion that would leave no paper trail. Also Mamdani could have suggested the meeting in the first place.

11 posted on 07/10/2026 11:05:03 PM PDT by magooey (The Mandate of Heaven resides in the hearts of men.)
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Pussies in DoJ afraid to arrest and charge this pig. This is aid and comfort to the enemy.


12 posted on 07/10/2026 11:38:54 PM PDT by HYPOCRACY (There is no gravity. The earth just sucks. )
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To: MinorityRepublican

Doesn’t that violate The Logan Act.


13 posted on 07/10/2026 11:39:47 PM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Gone but not forgiven.)
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“Obama lite amateur.”
The Islamocommie Party that KILLED the Democrat Party in the US is a savage bunch of anti-American ENEMY COMBATANTS. We ARE at WAR with them whether anyone wants to believe it or not.
They want Trump dead, his whole administration dead and MAGA dead.
The Islamocommies were right about one thing though:
They should ALL be rounded up, arrested and housed in concentration camps where they are either to be hanged or deported to Iran…..treasonous sons and daughters of the devil himself should be referred to MILITARY COURT.
Anyone who traveled to Iran to the ayatoilet’s funeral should not have been allowed back into the US!


14 posted on 07/11/2026 1:15:10 AM PDT by doc maverick
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To: MinorityRepublican

Treason.


15 posted on 07/11/2026 2:08:39 AM PDT by exnavy (See article IV section 4 of our constitution.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Stop demanding answers.

Arrest try imprison.


16 posted on 07/11/2026 3:05:25 AM PDT by Chickensoup
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Sounds like an effective way to get answers. Truthful ones too. Add some waterboarding and get all the answers.


17 posted on 07/11/2026 3:12:43 AM PDT by Kudsman (John (no can do) Thune. Where ya at John? We need you John. Send help John . Send up a flare John!)
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To: MinorityRepublican
chalked it up to a scheduling snafu

For some reason my secretary scheduled me for a meeting to undermine U.S. foreign policy. Good thing I checked my calendar!

18 posted on 07/11/2026 4:43:07 AM PDT by edwinland
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“Mamdani said he never knew about Commissioner Ana Maria Archila’s scheduled — and thwarted — confab this week with Amir-Saeid Iravani, Iran’s permanent representative to the United Nations, until he received a press inquiry about it.”

Easy way to find out if Moldavi is lying - let’s see if the babe is fired.


19 posted on 07/11/2026 5:18:04 AM PDT by BobL (Trusting one's doctor is the #1 health mistake one can make.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Implausible deniability. Never trust this douche.


20 posted on 07/11/2026 5:49:51 AM PDT by yldstrk
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