Shortly after President Donald Trump announced that the US and Israel had carried out military strikes in Iran, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani weighed in. Opening a new theater of war,” Mamdani wrote in a post on X on Saturday. “There’s a lot of specific reasons a mayor of New York City has a voice internationally,” former New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio, a Mamdani supporter, told CNN. Tisch and other top NYPD officials briefed Mamdani Saturday morning and again Monday afternoon, according to a city official. “That is much more important to Trump than Mamdani opposing action in Iran in a way that no one will be surprised by.”

Source: Egypt Independent March 04, 2026 14:11 UTC