A senior official in Communist New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration tried to hold an official meeting with the Iranian regime’s ambassador to the United Nations.
Commissioner Ana María Archila, head of the Mayor’s Office for International Affairs, had scheduled the meeting for July 7 at 11 a.m. at 2 United Nations Plaza with Amir-Saeid Iravani, Iran’s permanent representative to the UN.
Two other senior officials from the office were also set to attend, according to calendar invitation screenshots reviewed by City Journal and confirmed by multiple sources, including a State Department official.
The meeting was called off only after the U.S. State Department, which had not been informed in advance, stepped in and met with the Mamdani administration to “clarify acceptable conduct,” according to City Journal.
Archila reportedly did not even tell Mayor Mamdani she had arranged the sit-down. She was later reprimanded and ordered to cancel it.
A spokesperson for the Mayor’s Office for International Affairs issued the predictable damage-control statement: “This meeting did not and will not take place.”
EXCLUSIVE: The top official in the Zohran Mamdani administration’s Office for International Affairs made plans to meet with Iran’s ambassador to the UN.
Commissioner Ana María Archila was scheduled to meet with Amir-Saeid Iravani in an official capacity. The meeting was called…
— City Journal (@CityJournal) July 9, 2026
As The Gateway Pundit has extensively reported, Mamdani, the self-described socialist and DSA-backed Marxist who somehow became mayor of the nation’s largest city, has filled key posts with ideological allies rather than qualified professionals.
Archila, a longtime activist and co-director of the Working Families Party with zero diplomatic experience, was handed the powerful international affairs role as a political reward.
Her office has already been caught pushing an internal directive telling staff to prioritize diplomatic engagement with foreign officials who are “in political alignment/leftist.” This is not city business, this is ideological foreign policy run amok on the taxpayer dime.
President Trump’s State Department caught this rogue operation in time and put a stop to it. In a sane administration, local officials don’t get to conduct their own foreign policy with America’s enemies without so much as a heads-up to Washington.
Iran is not a normal country. It is a designated state sponsor of terrorism whose leaders have American blood on their hands. The idea that an official in America’s largest city would try to legitimize the regime with an official meeting, without even looping in the mayor or the federal government, is beyond reckless.
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