The 'technicality' is full disclosure. Iran never bothered with that full disclosure.

I love to hear people state that when an agreement is couched specifically and fundamentally on full disclosure, that lack of what is specifically called for in the agreement (and that lack thereof is somewhat material -- I guess that overlooking whole weapons programs and sites is a mere 'technicality') is deemed to be superfluous.

Lad, the reason that full disclosure isnt just a cute little bow on the package is because that 'full disclosure' allows a fuller and comprehensive snap inspection by the IAEA thingy....

You might be correct that the 'dates on the documents' arent evidence *current* Iranian breaches. The vast trove (100 fing k documents) indicate that Iran was far less than honest and forthcoming about the extent of the programs; and that 'gee I fing forgot about those 100 fing k documents *and* the programs and sites that they 'just forgot about' seem to evidence Iranian efforts to keep whole swaths of the issue away from the snap inspections by the IAEA mandated by the agreement.

In essence, if this were a divorce case, you would be saying that the husband's failure to provide documentation on 300k worth of assets and monies would be a 'technicality' when the divorce agreement is predicated on a full and honest disclosure of everything. But, I guess, in Lad world if the husband hadnt actually accessed that bank account (i.e. the dates werent *after* the divorce decreee) then it should go swimmingly okay for the husband, since that hiding of assets int the past should in no way 'indict [the husband's] current actions' and '[he] is currently abiding by the agreement.'

Hate to tell you that in many real world agreements, full, comprehensive, and accurate recitals of past actions are the basis for many of the issues that are performed in the agreement. In this case, since Iran agreed to snap inspections by the IAEA, this absolutely falls in that category, since only a full, comprehensive, and accurate recital of Iranian nuclear history allows that function to operate.

Technicality? My ass....