Happy March in New York City! It was a weekend for the history books, as the U.S. launched a series of air strikes in Iran on Saturday, killing multiple high-ranking Iranian officials, including Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The attacks likely spell the end of the current regime in Iran and a seismic reshaping of the power dynamic in the Middle East. So what has been the fallout here in the five boroughs?
Saturday’s news immediately drew outrage from some of the city’s most prominent left-wing politicians. Mayor Mamdani published an X post on Saturday in which he called the attacks “a catastrophic escalation in an illegal war of aggression,” then addressed Iranian New Yorkers, saying, “You will be safe here.”
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries stopped short of condemning the attacks themselves. Instead, both Democrats focused their ire on the president’s decision to follow through on the attack without first seeking approval from Congress.
There were also a number of vocal supporters of the strikes in New York City, including former Mayor Eric Adams. “For decades, Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s regime governed through violence and intimidation,” Adams wrote on X. “For millions who suffered under his rule, this is not just another headline. It is a moment many believed they might never see.”
Many Iranian New Yorkers remain split over the news, with some celebrating the end of a regime they perceive as dictatorial and oppressive, and others worrying about the instability this attack will surely bring to the region.
“There are people who are extremely fearful of what this war — that doesn’t seem to have a very clear end — is going to bring to Iran,” Ebne Alian, a junior fellow at the Transregional Center for Democratic Studies at the New School, told the New York Times. “In terms of civil war, in terms of the disintegration of Iran, or in terms of just another failed state in the region.”
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