{"id":202776,"date":"2026-04-19T21:15:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T21:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/202776\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T21:15:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T21:15:10","slug":"nyc-mayor-500-million-spent-daily-on-crimes-against-people-of-iran-lebanon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/202776\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC mayor: $500 million spent daily on crimes against people of Iran, Lebanon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"summary\">TEHRAN- The mayor of New York has criticized the US administration for spending $500 million a day on killing the people of Iran and Lebanon.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with US National Public Radio (NPR), Zahran Mamdani condemned federal government policies, saying: &#8220;We&#8217;re talking about a federal administration that has spent close to $30 billion killing thousands of people at a time when working-class people across this country cannot afford the bare minimum.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And to be told that a city-run grocery store is implausible, but spending more than $500 million a day to kill people in Iran and Lebanon is not only plausible but necessary \u2014 it speaks to a broken kind of politics,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Mamdani also noted that military aggression against Iran has had a significant impact on the US economy. &#8220;At the core of any war is a dehumanization that takes place. And that dehumanization is not limited to any battlefield,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TEHRAN- The mayor of New York has criticized the US administration for spending $500 million a day on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202777,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[14670,33408,17756,9,56,63,65,64,4107,21181,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-202776","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-iran","9":"tag-lebanon","10":"tag-mayor-of-new-york","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-ny","13":"tag-nyc","14":"tag-nyc-headlines","15":"tag-nyc-news","16":"tag-u-s","17":"tag-war","18":"tag-zohran-mamdani"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}