New Yorks guvernör Andrew Cuomo (D) är ett rövhål mot journalister (Video finns)

In 2018, Mamdani was naturalized as an American citizen. He is a Shia Muslim and identifies with the Twelver branch

But Mamdani pulled no punches when Trump attacked. On Saturday night, he declared, “Donald Trump ran for president promising to end wars, not start new ones. Today’s unconstitutional military action represents a dark, new chapter in his endless betrayals that now threaten to plunge the world deeper into chaos.”
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Mamdani, an outspoken critic of US foreign policy in the Middle East—especially American support for the Israeli assault on Gaza—argued that the attack on Iran would have consequences for New Yorkers. “In a city as global as ours, the impacts of war are felt deeply here at home. I am thinking of the New Yorkers with loved ones in harm’s way,” he explained, at a point when bombs were falling throughout the Middle East. “While Donald Trump bears immediate responsibility for this illegal escalation, these actions are the result of a political establishment that would rather spend trillions of dollars on weapons than lift millions out of poverty, launch endless wars while silencing calls for peace, and fearmonger about outsiders while billionaires hollow out our democracy from within. For Americans middle aged and younger, this is all we have known. We cannot accept it any longer.”

While he suggested that he wished the president had consulted Congress, Cuomo echoed talking points from the White House and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, claiming that the attack made the world a “safer place.”