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President Trump has defended his newly signed Iran deal as critics and Iran pushed back on what it leaves unresolved.

Getting into it: The day after he put his name on the memorandum of understanding at the Palace of Versailles, Trump hit back on Truth Social, calling those who say he wasn’t tough enough “jealous, bad people, or stupid” and insisting the deal achieves everything he set out to accomplish. He pitched it as both an economic and a security win, touting falling oil prices, record markets and his claim that Iran will never have a nuclear weapon.

The released 14-point text commits the US, “with regional partners,” to a $300 billion reconstruction plan for Iran, which Trump insists won’t cost America “10 cents.” A source told Reuters that the fund is entirely private, with more than half already committed by companies across the US, the Gulf and Asia, and that Iran had pushed for $400 billion in war damages. Trump spent years ripping Obama for sending money back to Tehran, and now he’s admitting he’ll do the same and hand over Iran’s frozen funds.

Despite Trump’s “never” claim, the text just has Iran agreeing to dilute its enriched uranium with the IAEA watching, leaving the specifics, timeline, the fate of Hezbollah and Iran’s missile program all to 60 days of talks. One US official called the unresolved nuclear details “a flaw” but the concession a major win, even as officials said they had entered negotiations expecting Iran to lie and cheat.

Iran quickly moved to set its own limits, with its foreign ministry declaring its missiles are “only for firing, not for negotiations” and off the table entirely. Tehran’s top negotiator said the Strait of Hormuz wasn’t going back to how it ran before the war and that Iran would keep charging a fee for services, predicting the deal would ultimately be remembered as a US failure.

This all comes as Republicans ripped the agreement, with Senator Bill Cassidy calling it the “worst foreign policy blunder in decades” and Senator Lindsey Graham pinning it on Vice President JD Vance, whom Trump joked he would blame if it falls apart.

Meanwhile, Israeli forces kept striking south Lebanon despite the deal’s pledge of a permanent end to fighting, and Trump warned he would “bomb the hell out of them” if Iran violates it.