"A Soft Secession" - Mamdani's Blocked Iran Meeting and Erased Little Italy Spark Outrage

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**Patrick Bet-David** (0:26)
Mamdani allegedly had a meeting to meet with the ambassador of Iran. It was on his calendar. You know what Mamdani said? Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't even know.
I didn't even know I had this meeting on my schedule. Oh, wait, I'm meeting with the ambassador. Yeah. Oh my God, you know, I have such a busy schedule. I would have never had the meeting, but you know what? Yeah, we're not going to have the meeting. Why are you not going to have the meeting? Well, because the State Department shut down the meeting. So if you want to pull up the story, Mamdani's official plan meeting with Iran envoy shut down by the State Department. Go a little bit lower if you can and zoom in. A senior official in New York City, Mayor of Mamdani administration planned to have a meeting with Iran's ambassador to the United Nations before the State Department reportedly intervened and the meeting was canceled. Commissioner Ana Maria, leader of the Mamdani administration's Office of International Affairs was scheduled to meet with Iran's permanent representative to United Nations, Amir Said Irvani.
Tuesday City General first reported, US official familiar with the matter confirmed to Fox News that the meeting had been scheduled. The reported intervention marks the second known instance in recent weeks in which the Trump administration has stepped in over Mamdani's administration contact with foreign leaders highlighting growing federal scrutiny of New York City's international outreach under its new socialist mayor. Tom, how big of a story is this?

**Tom** (1:47)
This is big. And let me tell you why.
What's going on when this happens or when Gavin Newsom did the whole thing, which is now four years ago, China, you know, and by the way, and by the way, and swept all the homeless out of town, stuck them on buses and sent them far enough away that they couldn't hitchhike or walk back until the Chinese were gone and then put Chinese flags up on there. When a mayor does this and it's not just, hey, Mr. President, you know, I reach out to you, Mr. President, we're going to do an international trade conference. It's going to be here in San Francisco.
We have a lot of trade on here, a lot of semiconductors, but we're going to be doing all this. We're cool, right? We're all right to do this. We're going to have ambassadors and trade representatives. And I come to you, Pat, President, and you would say to me, okay, you can do this, this, and this, thanks for letting us know. That's probably planned out a year and a half in advance. Instead, we have proxy wars going on. And let me explain what I mean. So this is Mamdani, a frickin proxy war against our own administration, the same way Gavin did it. This is them trying to do things their way, incurring favor with people that they want to have.

**Patrick Bet-David** (2:57)
What's the outcome? What's the outcome?

**Tom** (2:59)
He wants political allegiance and he wants funding.
He wants a lot of things. He wants funding to come through the dark accounts back into PACs to help him. That's what he's asking for. He's asking for a lot of things. In my opinion, this is Tom's observant opinion.

**Patrick Bet-David** (3:15)
Asking who?

**Tom** (3:16)
He's asking Iran and other dark sources of funding to come support him. That's my opinion.

**Patrick Bet-David** (3:22)
You're going there, Tom.

**Tom** (3:23)
I'm going there. That's what I think. I don't think it's just for, oh, this is just the camaraderie of Muslims in here. No, no, the aspirations they have are bigger. Listen to Tali, but listen to what she was screaming into the microphone this weekend. Their aspirations are bigger. They are doing this and it's mayors basically running like a proxy war diplomatically against our own administration. Yeah.

**Patrick Bet-David** (3:51)
And you know, this guy, if there's one thing Americans should be grateful for, is the fact that this guy wasn't born in America.
Because if he was born here, you know what this guy would be? He'd be the number one candidate for president ahead of everybody. He's just too good on what he's doing. And while this is taking place in New York, another story comes out.