Iran has promised to aid Syria after rebels took control of the country’s second most populous city, Aleppo. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi traveled to Damascus on Sunday to express support for Syrian President Bashar al Assad’s regime and to affirm support for Assad in Syria’s ongoing civil war. The civil war, which began in 2011, reignited last week when antigovernment troops launched a surprise attack and took control of wide swaths of western Syria. “We firmly support the Syrian army and government,” Araghchi said before leaving for Damascus on Sunday, Iranian state news reported. “The Syrian army will once again be victorious over these terrorist groups as in the past.” The Assad regime has also received help from Moscow. Russian and Syrian fighter jets struck rebel-occupied areas over the weekend, including inside the city of Aleppo. One such strike killed a dozen people in a central part of the city, according to The Guardian. The rebel forces are led by the group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), or the Organization for the Liberation of the Levant. HTS began as Jabhat al-Nusra, an affiliate of the terror group al-Qaeda. The United States designated HTS a terror group in 2018. HTS struck against Assad and the Syrian government because of Assad’s perceived weakness with Russia and Iran both distracted and spending significant resources on separate conflicts, according to Emile Hokayem, senior fellow for Middle East security at the International Institute for Strategic Studies. “This has to do with geopolitics and local opportunity,” Hokayem told The Washington Post. “The rebellion at large had regrouped, rearmed, and retrained for something like this.” Moscow is waging war against Ukraine, and Tehran has suffered significant losses in exchanges with Israel. The terror group Hezbollah in Lebanon has also been a key ally for Assad’s regime in the past, but Hezbollah has been decimated and its leadership all but destroyed by Israel. U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan said on CNN on Sunday that whether the rebel forces surprise attack in Syria aids U.S. interests in the region remains to be seen. “It’s a complicated question because the group at the vanguard of this rebel advance, HTS, is actually a terrorist organization designated by the United States. So, we have real concerns about the designs and objectives of that organization,” Sullivan said when asked about U.S. interests in the region. “At the same time, of course, we don’t cry over the fact that the Assad government – backed by Russia, Iran, and Hezbollah – you know, are facing certain kinds of pressure. So, it’s a complicated situation, it’s one we are monitoring closely, and we are staying in close touch with regional partners about it.” National Security Adviser @JakeSullivan46 tells @kasie that the surprise rebel offensive in Syria is the “natural result” of Russia and Iran’s “weaker strategic position.” pic.twitter.com/6xkMI6c8AO — State of the Union (@CNNSOTU) December 1, 2024

President Joe Biden celebrated Dr. Anthony Fauci, a divisive former government health official, as a “true hero” at the White House on Sunday. The shout out took place as Biden delivered remarks during an event to commemorate World Aids Day on the South Lawn, prompting a round of applause from the audience. JUST IN: President Joe Biden salutes Dr. Anthony Fauci during a World AIDS Day speech. “And you're a good man. God love you. As my mother would say, God love you, Anthony.”pic.twitter.com/alhLzbsswi — Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) December 1, 2024 “A special thanks to one of the great public health officials. A true hero who had led this fight against HIV/AIDS: Dr. Anthony Fauci,” Biden said. He then gave a hand salute to Fauci and continued: “And you’re a good man. God love you. As my mother would say, God love you, Anthony.” The comments drew mockery and condemnation from critics of Fauci, some of whom hearkened back to the AIDS epidemic as well as the COVID pandemic, and Biden. “If you’ve done even a little digging into Fauci’s role in the AIDS crisis then you know he’s absolutely hated by the people who lost loved ones due to his mismanagement of the crisis. He had protestors outside his offices during the crisis too,” conservative activist Robby Starbuck said on X. “Dementia is tragic,” molecular biologist Richard Ebright responded to Biden in a post to X. Ebright also said: “Fauci provably violated federal policies on gain-of-function and enhanced potential pandemic pathogen research, provably committed conspiracy to defraud and perjury, and probably is culpable for pandemic that killed 20+ million and cost $25+ trillion.” Tom Fitton, president of conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch, simply declared: “Fauci should be under criminal investigation.” Among those who approved what Biden did was Democrat influencer Harry Sisson. “President Biden praised Dr. Fauci as a ‘a true hero’ today, which is the TRUTH! Dr. Fauci is an American hero, and his contribution to medicine has changed the world for the better. Thank you, Dr. Fauci!” Sisson said on X. Fauci, a longtime director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), advised former (and future) President Donald Trump Biden before retiring at the end of 2022. During a CBS interview in June, Fauci hesitated to assess whether Trump was fit to lead, but stated “absolutely” when pressed about Biden — who had not yet dropped out of the 2024 presidential race amid growing concerns about his mental state and electability.

President Joe Biden announced on Sunday that he signed a pardon for his son, Hunter Biden, despite repeated denials that he would ever do so. The pardon was issued before Hunter Biden, 54, was expected to be sentenced for gun and tax evasion crimes later in December. He was facing the potential for prison time. “No reasonable person who looks at the facts of Hunter’s cases can reach any other conclusion than Hunter was singled out only because he is my son – and that is wrong,” President Biden said. The elder Biden and the White House had denied on multiple occasions, dating back to last year, that the president had intended to give his son Hunter Biden a pardon. “We’ve been asked that question multiple times and our answer stands — which is no,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said in early November. Hunter Biden faced charges following the 2023 collapse of what critics panned as a “sweetheart” plea deal in the investigation led by special counsel David Weiss President Biden bemoaned how the plea agreement “unraveled” with “a number of my political opponents in Congress taking credit for bringing political pressure on the process.” The elder Biden also insisted: “Had the plea deal held, it would have been a fair, reasonable resolution of Hunter’s cases.” This story is breaking and will be updated.

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The public health establishment and left-wing media are rushing to discredit President-elect Donald Trump’s picks to lead health agencies. The New York Times smears them as “outside the medical mainstream.” Circling the wagons, Dr. Paul Offit, a current adviser to the Food and Drug Administration, lamely observes, “What they’re saying when they make these appointments is that we don’t trust the people who are there.” You bet. Trump and the public have every reason to distrust the current agency heads, after the repeated blunders, deceptions and coverups during COVID-19. Trump is appointing disrupters with the courage to challenge the status quo. Like Dr. Marty Makary, nominated to head the Food and Drug Administration. Makary’s credentials will make it impossible for the U.S. Senate to reject him. A Johns Hopkins surgeon and professor of public health, Makary was voted into the prestigious National Academy of Medicine, which is like the Hall of Fame for doctors.More important, if you’re in the hospital, you want Makary on your side. Two decades ago, he declared war against the epidemic of medical errors killing as many as 100,000 patients a year: errors like patients being given the wrong dose of a medication, or the surgeon operating on the wrong body part, or a lethal germ invading the patients’ body to cause an infection. The medical establishment was hush-hush about them. But not Makary. He argued for surgeons always taking a “timeout” in the operating room to look for errors. He also pioneered doctors using checklists, like pilots do, to ensure protocols are followed. My organization, the Committee to Reduce Infection Deaths, considers Makary a hero. In 2017, Makary went to bat for patients saddled with unfair medical debt. Even nonprofit hospitals were suing patients, garnishing wages and taking their homes. In many cases, hospitals had charged patients several times more than what insurance companies were charged for the same procedures. Makary called for an end to it. When COVID-19 struck, Makary had the guts to speak out about mistakes he saw the federal health agencies making, like wasting scarce vaccine doses on people who already had natural immunity while other patients died waiting for a shot. The federal health officials doubled down, ignoring actual evidence that disproved their insistence natural immunity was not as good as a shot. In fact, it’s many times more effective. The Biden administration pushed its social media lackeys to block his research from public view. Makary told Congress “public health politicos” were to blame for numerous COVID-19 deaths. He called for “using scientific evidence and not political badges and censorship in debating public health policy.” But the left is still attacking scientists based on politics. Left-wing Washington Post health reporter Lena Sun falsely claims that Trump’s team “is largely untested, possesses scant infectious-disease expertise” and would leave the nation in dire straits “when the next pandemic strikes.” Ridiculous. Truth is, the public health elite marched in lock-step, muzzling critics even as the mistakes accumulated and 1 million Americans died of COVID-19. The U.S. per capita death rate far exceeded what other developed countries suffered. To prepare for the next pandemic, the Trump administration must clean house and bring in bold scientists who challenge groupthink and demand evidence, which was totally lacking last time to support masking, 6-foot distancing, school closure and other recommendations. When evidence is lacking, the rest of us become mere pawns, adhering to misguided medical recommendations that can cost us our lives. Makary tells how an incorrect recommendation made by the American Academy of Pediatrics in 2000—that children 3 and under as well as pregnant and lactating mothers should avoid all peanuts—resulted in a peanut allergy panic in the U.S. Too embarrassed to admit they had no research on peanut allergies, the American Academy of Pediatrics  made up that rule. Peanut allergies exploded, with the number of children rushed to emergency rooms with allergic reactions tripling from 2005 to 2014. Research published in 2015 shows that exposing babies to peanuts actually reduces the risk of an allergy by 86%. But even the National Institutes of Health dithered for two years before giving parents a straight story. The day Makary takes over at the FDA and brings his unflinching demand for evidence to Washington, D.C., will be a good day for science and for America. COPYRIGHT 2024 CREATORS.COM We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. The post Disrupting the Health Agencies Will Save American Lives appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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