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Does Mamdani dare disavow his openly anti-American DSA comrades?

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Kudos to the State Department for putting the kibosh on city International Affairs Commissioner Ana María Archila’s bid to meet with Amir-Saeid Iravani, Iran’s ambassador to the United Nations, even as America and Iran are at war — but the affair poses a challenge to Mayor Zohran Mamdani: Does he have the grit to break with the openly anti-American factions of the Democratic Socialists of America?

Mamdani’s tried to downplay the disgraceful episode, insisting Archila had no clearance to do such outreach, yet he’s not firing her or imposing any discipline.

Nor even saying outright how very wrong she was.

Which raises the question of whether he prefers the theocratic regime in Tehran to the United States government.

You can oppose the US war without embracing the monsters with decades of American blood on their hands, but some DSAers do side with the Islamic Republic, because it hates the United States: They’ve said as much, openly.

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