New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani slammed President Trump’s strikes on Iran as an “illegal war of aggression.”
“Today’s military strikes on Iran — carried out by the United States and Israel — mark a catastrophic escalation in an illegal war of aggression. Bombing cities. Killing civilians. Opening a new theater of war,” Mamdani posted on X.
The US and Israel launched “Operation Epic Fury” early Saturday morning — striking the Tehran office of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and other targets.
The airstrikes were launched after weeks of failed negotiations with Tehran to reach a deal over its nuclear weapons program — with the regime refusing to give up its nuclear enrichment capabilities.
The comments come just days after Hizzoner traveled to the White House for a surprise meeting with the president.
The two leaders posed for a picture in which a grinning Trump held a mock newspaper praising him for increasing housing stock in the Big Apple.
“Trump to City: Let’s Build,” the fake headline read.
But the bonhomie appears short-lived with Mamdani blasting Trump’s decision to take out the Ayatollah’s repressive regime.
“Americans do not want this. They do not want another war in pursuit of regime change. They want relief from the affordability crisis. They want peace,” he said.
Iranian dissident Masih Alinejad — who was targeted for assassination by the regime — trashed the socialist mayor in a scathing X post.
“To you, Zohran Mamdani! You stayed quiet when we have faced massacre, when Islamic Republic assassins were sent here in New York to kill us, stay quiet now! STOP lecturing us Iranians about peace,” the activist posted.
“I don’t feel safe in New York listening to someone like you, Mamdani, who sympathizes with the regime that killed more than 30,000 unarmed Iranians in less than 24 hours.”
Trump threatened to take action against the Islamic Republic in January after it brutally crushed protests that sprung up around the country.
“Iranian Patriots, KEEP PROTESTING – TAKE OVER YOUR INSTITUTIONS!!!… HELP IS ON ITS WAY,” Trump said in a post on Truth Social, without saying what that help might be,” he posted on Truth Social at the time.
The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps and its Basij forces slaughtered thousands of demonstrators during its crackdown — with death toll estimates running as high 36,500.
Since then, US forces have dramatically built up in the Gulf region, with two aircraft carriers and thousands of troops deployed to the Middle East.
Mamdani also issued a message to Iranian New Yorkers — many of whom fled the fanatical ayatollah regime, calling them part of the “fabric of this city.”
Mamdani has long been accused of antisemitism and terrorist sympathies.
He infamously sent his “love to the Holy Land five,” during a rap song he released in 2017. The Holy Land Five were a group of non-profit officials convicted of funneling over $12 million to Hamas.
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