Anti-Israel mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani is blasting the US bombing of Iran’s nuclear websites as an “unconstitutional army motion.
“Donald Trump ran for president promising to end wars, not start new ones,” the Democratic Socialist stated in a press release launched on X late Saturday.
“Today’s unconstitutional military action represents a dark, new chapter in his endless betrayals that now threaten to plunge the world deeper into chaos,” the New York Metropolis candidate wrote. “In a city as global as ours, the impacts of war are felt deeply here at home.”
Mamdani additionally blamed the “political establishment” for spending cash on weaponry and “endless wars” moderately than on combating poverty and selling peace.
“For Americans middle aged and younger, this is all we have known,” stated Mamdani, who’s working a powerful second in polls to front-runner Andrew Cuomo within the Democratic main for mayor.
“We cannot accept it any longer,” the candidate stated.
The Cuomo marketing campaign had no rapid touch upon the US airstrikes.
However metropolis Comptroller and Democratic mayoral candidate Brad Lander additionally slammed the bombing.
“Trump’s reckless & unconstitutional strikes against Iran are a dangerous escalation of war — and threaten countless Iranian, Israeli & American lives,” Lander wrote on X on Saturday, after President Trump’s tackle to the nation outlining why the US launched the bombs at Iran.
“My thoughts are with families fearing for their safety, and the thousands of New Yorkers worrying tonight about loved ones in Iran,” Lander stated.
Trump defended the bombing in his speech by saying, “Our objective was the destruction of Iran’s nuclear enrichment capacity and a stop to the nuclear threat posed by the world’s No. 1 state sponsor of terror.”
The US strikes got here earlier than Tuesday’s remaining day of voting within the Massive Apple’s Democratic main for mayor after Sunday’s final day of early voting, overshadowing and doubtlessly impacting the result.
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Mayor Eric Adams, who’s searching for re-election on an unbiased poll line, stated he ordered the NYPD to “increase its presence around religious, cultural, and diplomatic sites throughout the five boroughs” within the wake of the US assault.
“Thinking about our large Persian population here in NYC at this time,” he wrote on X on Saturday evening.
Mamdani’s shut Democratic Socialist ally, New York Metropolis Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, stated Trump’s bombing of Iran is “grounds for impeachment.”
Mamdani has come underneath hearth for his vicious bashing of Israel, which has additionally struck Iran’s nuclear enrichment amenities in an effort to stop Tehran from constructing nuke bombs.
He’s a staunch supporter of the boycott, divestment and sanctions motion in opposition to the Jewish state, and refused to sentence the “globalize the intifada” rallying cry — a slogan that has been denounced for allegedly stoking antisemitic violence.