State Department Blocks NYC Official's Iran Meeting, 2nd Intervention Over Mamdani Foreign Contacts
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Updated · Fox News · Jul 10
State Department Blocks NYC Official's Iran Meeting, 2nd Intervention Over Mamdani Foreign Contacts
3 articles · Updated · Fox News · Jul 10
Summary
A planned Tuesday meeting between NYC international affairs commissioner Ana María Archila and Iran's U.N. ambassador Amir-Saeid Iravani was canceled after the State Department learned of it.
State Department officials then met Mamdani aides to clarify acceptable conduct, saying it was unconscionable for a city official to consider meeting an envoy they accuse of undermining U.S. interests.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani said the meeting did not and will not take place, adding he had not known about it until reporters asked.
The episode is the second known Trump administration intervention in recent weeks over Mamdani's foreign outreach, after objections in June scrapped a planned meeting with Colombian President Gustavo Petro.