President Donald Trump‘s administration has struggled for months with overpromising and underdelivering on a peace deal with Iran. Now, it is approaching its latest bid for peace with rhetoric that promises little and leaves what will be delivered as a question mark.

The White House has claimed that its memorandum of understanding, set to be signed alongside Iranian officials in Switzerland on Friday, has “solved a threat Washington spent 40 years managing.” Critics and allies alike are confused and even outraged by that claim, asserting that the deal at best resets the board to the pre-war status quo.