Zohran Mamdani slams US bombing of Iran nuclear sites

Anti-Israel mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani is blasting the US bombing of Iran’s nuclear sites as an “unconstitutional military action.

“Donald Trump ran for president promising to end wars, not start new ones,” the Democratic Socialist said in a statement released 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 City candidate wrote. “In a city as global as ours, the impacts of war are felt deeply here at home.”

Mamdani also blamed the “political establishment” for spending money on weaponry and “endless wars” rather than on fighting poverty and promoting peace.

“For Americans middle aged and younger, this is all we have known,” said Mamdani, who is running a strong second in polls to front-runner Andrew Cuomo in the Democratic primary for mayor.

“We cannot accept it any longer,” the candidate said.

The Cuomo campaign had no immediate comment on the US airstrikes.

But city Comptroller and Democratic mayoral candidate Brad Lander also 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 address 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 said.

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 came before Tuesday’s final day of voting in the Big Apple’s Democratic primary for mayor after Sunday’s last day of early voting, overshadowing and potentially impacting the outcome.

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Mayor Eric Adams, who is seeking re-election on an independent ballot line, said he ordered the NYPD to “increase its presence around religious, cultural, and diplomatic sites throughout the five boroughs” in the wake of the US attack.

“Thinking about our large Persian population here in NYC at this time,” he wrote on X on Saturday night.

Mamdani’s close Democratic Socialist ally, New York City Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, said Trump’s bombing of Iran is “grounds for impeachment.”

Mamdani has come under fire for his vicious bashing of Israel, which has also struck Iran’s nuclear enrichment facilities in an effort to prevent Tehran from building nuke bombs.

He is a staunch supporter of the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement against the Jewish state, and refused to condemn the “globalize the intifada” rallying cry — a slogan that has been denounced for allegedly stoking antisemitic violence.