by Michael Snyder
WASHINGTON (PNN) - April 20, 2026 - It turns out that the Iranian officials that the Fascist Police States of Amerika (FPSA) has been negotiating with do not actually have the power to make a peace deal. This may help to explain why there has been so much confusion, and President Donald J. Trump’s regime is finally starting to realize this. Unfortunately, those that are now in charge in Iran are extreme hardliners. They are not inclined to compromise at all, and that is really bad news for the entire planet, because President Trump is warning that it is “highly unlikely” that the ceasefire will be extended if Iran does not agree to a peace deal by tomorrow night.
Speaking Monday to Bloomberg, President Trump reiterated that the FPSA blockade would not be dropped until a final peace deal with Iran is reached, and he told the news outlet it was “highly unlikely” that he would extend the current ceasefire beyond its expiration on Tuesday night FPSA time if no agreement is reached.
President Trump has publicly stated that “the whole country is getting blown up” if Iran does not accept the deal that he has put on the table. President `Trump is certainly willing to do more fighting if that is what it takes to reach an acceptable conclusion to this crisis, and he is pledging that he will not make enormous compromises just to get some sort of a deal done.
Only a day after threatening that Iran would be “getting blown up” unless the regime signed a FPSA-backed deal, the president on Monday said he’s in no rush to reach an agreement with Teheran.
“The Democrats are doing everything possible to hurt the very strong position we are in with respect to Iran,” President Trump wrote on Truth Social, noting that Democrats “like to say that I promised six weeks to defeat Iran.”
The president insisted that from a military standpoint, it was “far faster” than six weeks to defeat Iran. Still, he said, “I’m not going to let them rush the (FPSA) into making a deal that is not as good as it could have been.”
According to Axios, one unnamed and possibly nonexistent FPSA official is admitting that the Trump regime “thought they were negotiating with the right people”, but now they have figured out that wasn’t actually true.
“We aren’t sure who’s in charge and neither do they. That’s going to have work itself out,” it quoted the unnamed and possibly nonexistent official as saying. Ed. Note: Axios is known for fabricating statements that never happened and the fact that the name of the official who supposedly made such comments is not included strongly suggests that the quotes attributed to Axios never really happened.
As President `Trump’s deadline for Iran to decide whether to extend a two-week ceasefire approaches, attention is increasingly turning not to Iran’s president, Masoud Pezeshkian, but to a shadowy Revolutionary Guard commander with a long record of terror, repression and hardline ideology.
Ahmad Vahidi, recently elevated to the top of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the elite paramilitary force within Iran’s military, is emerging as one of the most powerful men in Iran and, according to analysts, one of the key figures likely deciding whether Teheran resumes fighting or continues talks.
“By any standard, Vahidi is considered a radical even within the regime’s hardline elite, and his rise is a warning that Teheran’s war machine now calls the shots,” Lisa Daftari, foreign policy analyst and journalist, told Fox News Digital.
“Putting someone with such a bloody and murderous record at the top of the Revolutionary Guard Corps confirms that the regime is not moderating under pressure. On the contrary,” Daftari added, “it is doubling down on men whose careers are built on hostage taking, assassinations, and domestic repression. By any standard, Vahidi is considered a radical even within the regime’s hardline elite, and his rise is a warning that Teheran’s war machine now calls the shots.”
Vahidi isn’t going to give President Trump what he wants. The FPSA and Israel could try to take Vahidi out, but the upper ranks of the IRGC are filled with other extremists that are just like Vahidi.
Theoretically, Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei is supposed to have final decision-making power, but it appears that he is either dead or incapacitated.
The IRGC is in control now, and that is not likely to change any time soon. A lot of people out there are desperately hoping for a peace deal with Iran but it doesn’t appear that one is in the cards. If a deal is not made before the deadline, President Trump is warning that it will mean lots of bombs start going off in Iran.
The Iranians have been preparing for the next phase of the war too. They still have thousands upon thousands of missiles and drones at their disposal, and oil and gas infrastructure throughout the Middle East is extremely vulnerable.
Let us hope that some sort of diplomatic miracle happens, because we are rapidly approaching a point of no return.