Zohran Mamdani’s alleged terror-tied imam ally, Siraj Wahhaj, once ripped the United States as “filthy” and “sick” in a hate-filled rant.

Wahhaj’s past remarks trashing the US were resurfaced over the weekend after Mamdani sparked controversy for meeting with the divisive Brooklyn imam on the mayoral campaign trail.

The clip of Wahhaj’s comments, which were made in 1995 and uncovered by the Investigative Project on Terrorism, captured the prominent imam spewing anti-American vitriol.

“You know what this country is? It’s a garbage can,” he seethed.

“It’s filthy. It’s filthy and sick.”

He also once called on Muslims to infiltrate American democracy for use as a “weapon” of Islamic causes.

Mamdani, who has been in hot water ever since his Friday rendezvous with Wahhaj came to light, has largely dismissed the backlash, arguing that it was only a hot topic due to his Muslim faith.

But critics, including some Muslims, have blasted the Democratic socialist mayoral candidate’s association with Wahhaj given the imam’s history of terror allegations.

Wahhaj was considered by federal prosecutors to be an “unindicted co-conspirator” in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing that left six dead given several people involved in the terror attack attended his mosque.

He was never charged and denied any connection to the attack, but later defended those responsible — calling the FBI and CIA the “real terrorists.”

Meanwhile, Wahhaj’s son was nabbed in 2018 and sentenced to life in prison after being convicted of keeping a band of teens in squalor in the New Mexico desert while training them to carry out terror attacks across the country.

Despite his questionable history, Mamdani on Friday called the prominent imam “one of the nation’s foremost Muslim leaders and a pillar of the Bed-Stuy community for nearly half a century” as he posed for photos with him on the campaign trail.

The backlash against him was swift.

One police veteran who responded to both the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and the 9/11 terror attacks ripped Mamdani’s engagement with Wahhaj as a “betrayal.”

“To look back at now at this individual who is running for mayor who sympathizes with the same people that wanted nothing but death and destruction for this city is pretty much a betrayal to that office and what it is that it should stand for,” Vinny Vallelong, president of NYPD Sergeants Benevolent Association, told The Post.  

“It’s kind of disgusting that we were in a situation like this … with the 25th anniversary coming up of 9/11 that we have a terrorist sympathizer that could very well be the mayor of New York City.” 

Mamdani, who would be the first Muslim mayor of New York City, has since suggested that critics are only fired up about his association with the iman because of his “faith.”

“The same imam met with Mayor Bloomberg, met with Mayor De Blasio, campaigned alongside Eric Adams, and the only time it became an issue of national attention was when I met with him,” he claimed.

“That’s because of the fact of my faith and because I’m on the precipice of winning this election.”

Former Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who crossed paths with the iman back in 2009 during a public event, later expressed regret for greeting him.

At the time, Bloomberg said he never would have engaged if he had known about Wahhaj’s controversial background – including that he was a character witness for a convicted terrorist.

Ex-mayor Bill de Blasio, for his part, made a public appearance at the Masjid At Taqwa mosque frequented by the imam in 2021, though it wasn’t clear if he interacted with him there.

While Mayor Eric Adams was pictured alongside Wahhaj at an annual interfaith breakfast with religious leaders in 2015 back when he was Brooklyn Borough President, an insider told The Post he has never campaigned with the iman.  

It wasn’t immediately clear if Adams or de Blasio had any other ties to the iman – despite Mamdani’s claim.  

The Post has reached out to de Blasio and Adams.

Mamdani’s campaign wouldn’t comment any further.