New… Iranian reality

So, after waking up on Saturday to enjoy the sight of the Artemis’ astronauts returning to Earth after seeing – on behalf of mankind – the far side of the Moon for the very FIRST TIME, your Eyewitness woke up on Sunday morning to discover that the astronauts had returned to a NEW EARTH!! What’s that?? Well, during the night, the marathon negotiations between the US (Vance) and the Iranians – in Pakistan with their officials as intermediators – broke down after 21 uninterrupted hours!! And what caused that breakdown?? All the details aren’t out as of your Eyewitness’ pecking away at this – but the bottom line is the Iranians balked at the American terms – and chucked their hand in!!
And that’s what has created a new world!! It’s not that the Iranians have suddenly gotten ‘spunks” – but that they’ve exhibited that they’ve got a strategic weapon that’s even better than the atomic weapons the Yanks say they’re trying to deny them!! They control the Straits of Hormuz through which one-fifth of the oil and gas that makes the (modern) world go round!! So, they can bring that world to a painful halt like they’re doing right now – with gas prices in the US going through the roof; cooking gas shortage in India bringing their citizens into the street – and fertilizers heading skywards to push up the price of agricultural products!! And so on and so forth – pushing global inflation and a possible new Global Recession!!
Now THAT’S power!! Even if you had nukes, in the present world-system it’s felt that any country that commits first strike, gonna face not just opprobrium but outright hostilities from countries experiencing the nuclear fallout!! That’s the only reason a country like Israel – whose possession of nuclear weapons is an open secret and hasn’t shown no respect for world opinion – hasn’t lobbed any of them against Iran, which is committed to destroying them as a state!! The irony, of course, in all this talk of holding back the spread of nuclear weapons, the interlocutor in the “peace talks” – Pakistan – has nuclear weapons!! More specifically, “ISLAMIC” nuclear weapons as they announced back in May 1998 – that were developed in response to nuclear tests by archrival India. The Yanks turned a blind eye to Pakistani nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan’s clandestine international nuclear smuggling network!!
Anyhow, if we wanna be objective, we now gotta consider Iran as one of the three SUPERPOWERS – along with the US and China – on the basis that they can bring the world to its knees!! So, what’s ahead in the immediate future?
The Yanks have deployed their navy to clear the Straits of mines and we’ll just have to see how the Iranians react!! Stalemate??

…barefacedness
Can you imagine the leader of the PNC – Aubrey Norton – harassing the US Ambassador about her praise of the PPP govt: “We ask the question; has the US government abandoned its desire to see the back of corruption by supporting a government categorised by reputable transparency and accountability international agencies as one of the most corrupt in the world?” This is sheer, undiluted, barefacedness – or as Yanks like Ambassador Theriot call it – chutzpah!!
Norton claims he was a PNC member – its youth arm actually – since he was just in short pants. So, he would have PERSONAL knowledge of Burnham supporting the American cause to keep out “commie” Cheddi!! Wasn’t this corrupt behaviour? Then to add salt to the wound – even if the Yanks’ fears were justified – he then went on to rig elections for the next 28 years!!
How corrupt was this?? He loosed his dogs of war on the Guyanese populace to hold on to power – eventually killing the charismatic opponent, Walter Rodney. Yet the Yanks kept mum!!

…Berbice?
Exxon’s CEO claims Berbice gonna be developing following gas to be landed there from the new Haimara well – and the already tapped Longtail – starting in 2030.
Well, all your Eyewitness can say is Berbice been the “ancient county” for too long!!