Officials in New York City's government attempted to arrange a meeting with Iran's ambassador to the United Nations, according to an Israeli media report on Friday. The American administration was forced to intervene and block the meeting. The report follows a disclosure earlier Friday that a senior official under mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani had planned such a meeting, which the State Department prevented.
An Israeli media report published Friday morning says that officials in New York City's government attempted to arrange a meeting with Iran's ambassador to the United Nations, and that the U.S. administration was forced to intervene and block the meeting. The report follows a separate disclosure earlier Friday — covered by The Zioneer at 03:30 Jerusalem — that a senior official in the administration of mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani had planned a meeting with Iran's UN envoy, which was canceled after the State Department intervened. Mamdani, who has opposed Israel's identity as a Jewish state, has not commented on either report. The successive reports suggest the incident involved multiple city officials and that the federal government acted to prevent direct contact between a U.S. municipal government and the Iranian regime. The precise timing and nature of the attempted meeting remain unclear. The reports have not been independently confirmed.
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