The truth is that the U.S. has been negotiating with the wrong people in Iran this entire time, and the Trump administration is finally starting to realize this. Unfortunately, as you will see below, 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 U.S. 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 U.S. time if no agreement is nailed down.

As I discussed yesterday, 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.

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 U.S.-backed deal, the president on Monday said he's in no rush to reach an agreement with Tehran.

"The Democrats are doing everything possible to hurt the very strong position we are in with respect to Iran," Mr. Trump wrote on Truth Social, noting that Democrats "like to say that I promised 6 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 United States into making a deal that is not as good as it could have been."

Of course the Iranians are in no mood to do much compromising either, and they have made that abundantly clear.

And it turns out that the people that we have been negotiating with do not actually have the power to agree to a deal.

According to Axios, one U.S. official is admitting that the Trump administration "thought they were negotiating with the right people", but now they have figured out that wasn't actually true…

A US official said Washington is uncertain who is in charge in Iran as efforts continue to secure a deal and extend the ceasefire, Axios reported on Monday.

"We aren't sure who's in charge and neither do they. That's going to have work itself out," it quoted the official as saying.

"We thought they were negotiating with the right people, they had reached the cocktail of what they had agreed to, what could be announced. But what happened is the Iranian team went back and the IRGC and those kinds of people said 'oh, no, no. You don't speak for us,'" a second senior administration official said.