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Iran War Investigation — Sources

Every source cited anywhere in this investigation, 2,250 in all, grouped by kind and then by section. Each page also lists its own sources at the bottom, next to the claims they support. Open them and check for yourself.

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Israeli newspapers and officials in their own words, in English. These come first because no one can dismiss them as hostile outsiders.

The Jerusalem Post, Aug 30, 2026 opinion column (debt forgiveness to recruit Americans for an Iran ground war) — NOT opened; known only through the author's X post and the Iranian FM reaction (see X section). No URL confirmed.

American Soldiers on the Ground in Iran 2025–2030 — Articles

Section: American Soldiers on the Ground in Iran 2025–2030 — Articles

Jerusalem Post, AJ Jaff, 30 Aug 2026 — "between 750 thousand and 1.5 million American troops"; debt-forgiveness enlistment.
Times of Israel, 29 Mar 2026 — Pentagon preparing weeks-long ground ops; 13 KIA, 300+ wounded.
Jerusalem Post, Tobias Holcman, 29 Mar 2026 — US weighing ground op lasting weeks; Kharg Island.
Times of Israel, Stav Levaton, 1 Apr 2026 — why Israeli boots stay home.
Jerusalem Post, 26 Mar 2026 — Zamir: "10 red flags before the IDF collapses into itself."
Times of Israel, 27 Mar 2026 — Zamir quotes; ~20,000 soldiers short.
Israel Hayom, 21 Mar 2026, "Rising possibility of US raid in Iran" — two ground objectives (coast near Hormuz, Kharg).
Israel Hayom, 3 Mar 2026 — Israeli special forces and Mossad reported operating in Iran.
Jerusalem Post, Tzvi Jasper, 11 May 2026 — Netanyahu on 60 Minutes: "You go in, and you take it out."
Times of Israel / Reuters, 11 June 2026 — Votel: 800–1,000 to hold Kharg; Trump "stomach."
Israel National News, Jonathan Pollard, 10 July 2026 — seizing Kharg would be a strategic mistake.
i24NEWS, citing WSJ, Sept 2026 — ~50,000 US troops, deployments extended toward 2027.
Jerusalem Post: CENTCOM denies claims US troops taken prisoner in Iran — JPost, 7 Mar 2026
Jerusalem Post: Iran's central military command says US preparing to resume actions — JPost, 20 Sep 2026
Israel National News: Katz, "Israel will only join attacks on Iran if Trump asks us to" — Arutz Sheva, 2026
JNS: Netanyahu, toppling Iran's regime "within reach" — JNS, 4 Sep 2026
Katz: prepare for a blue-and-white operation — Ynet, 29 Jun 2026
The Warmonger Default — Israel National News, 22 April 2026
US successfully rescues second airman deep behind enemy lines in Iran, Trump confirms — cited on What US rescue of shot down pilot means for Hormuz, Kharg, potential invasions in Iran - analysis
WSJ: Trump Considers Ground Operation to Remove Enriched Uranium From Iran — cited on Trump: U.S. Will Respond 'Shortly' to Iranian Attack on Haifa Oil Refinery
i24news.tv — cited on i24NEWS on X: Pentagon officials drew up plans for US ground troops in Iran, CBS reported

American Soldiers on the Ground in Iran 2025–2030 — Videos

Section: American Soldiers on the Ground in Iran 2025–2030 — Videos

Jerusalem Post, Herb Keinon, May 11, 2026 — analysis of Netanyahu's 60 Minutes interview
Times of Israel liveblog: Israel asked US to join; US official confirms — Times of Israel, 2025-06
Haaretz: For the First Time Ever, Israel Is Asking America to Fight Alongside It – or for It — Haaretz / Aluf Benn, 2025-06-17
Haaretz: Netanyahu Says a Revolution in Iran Requires a Ground Offensive — Haaretz, 2026-03-19
Times of Israel: full text of Netanyahu's Feb 28, 2026 message (Operation Roaring Lion) — Times of Israel, 2026-02-28
Times of Israel: New clip further implicates US in deadly strike on Iran girls' school — Times of Israel / AP, 2026-03-09
Times of Israel: US counterterror official quits over Iran war — Times of Israel, 2026-03-17
Times of Israel: X cracks down on AI-generated war footage — Times of Israel, 2026-09
Jerusalem Post: Mark Lavie column ("army boots dirty") — JPost

Software for a Very Efficient Draft by Force (Pentagon-Funded Project)

Section: Software for a Very Efficient Draft by Force (Pentagon-Funded Project)

Times of Israel, April 26, 2026 — High Court orders financial sanctions on Haredi draft evaders — 79,000 orders, 2,100 enlisted, benefits tied to enlistment
Times of Israel, August 19, 2026 — AG says government must up enforcement — 83% of ~60,000 evaders Haredi
Times of Israel, May 18, 2026 — police say they will detain draft evaders — detention procedure
Draft protests, police officer questioned — Jerusalem Post, June 25, 2026

Plato's Ethics on the Black Horse

Section: Plato's Ethics on the Black Horse

The Times of Israel (Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTA), Mar 5, 2026 — "A new war revives some old tropes about Jewish and Israeli influence" — Ambassador Leiter calls Carlson antisemitic; distinguishing criticism of policy from tropes.
The Times of Israel, May 2026 — "White House pans Tucker Carlson for telling Israeli TV Netanyahu dragged US into war" — Carlson on Channel 13; White House response; Trump denial.
Haaretz, Jul 31, 2025 — Greene first GOP member to call Gaza war genocide — Greene "refuse[s] that manipulative label."
INSS (Porat, Quer, Naamat), Dec 23, 2021 — The IHRA Working Definition of Antisemitism — quotes "criticism of Israel similar to that leveled against any other country cannot be regarded as antisemitic" and the collective-responsibility example.
American Jews Won't Be Silenced. We Have Every Right to Oppose the Iran War (opinion) — Haaretz, March 25, 2026
How far-right criticism of the Iran war is a gateway drug for the antisemites — Haaretz, March 18, 2026
The dual-loyalty trope — JNS, Adam Levick, May 3, 2026
Advice for Israeli parents during the Iran war — Jerusalem Post, June 24, 2025

Plato's Ethics on the Black Horse vs. White Horse vs. Chariot Driver

Section: Plato's Ethics on the Black Horse vs. White Horse vs. Chariot Driver

None opened directly (Times of Israel / Haaretz topic pages were blocked or 404; web-search budget was exhausted). The Four Mothers material is Israeli-origin (movement co-leader co-authored the 2008 study, which cites Ari Shavit, 2006); see Official Records above and Wikipedia below. A coordinator with search access could add a Haaretz/Times of Israel piece on Four Mothers.

Plato's Cave

Section: Plato's Cave

Times of Israel liveblog, June 24, 2025 — Israeli intel: set back years, not destroyed; US intel: months; Zamir quote.
Ynet, "How a fake Iranian nuclear quote reached Netanyahu, Fox News and the US Senate" — Vahidi quote had no Iranian source.
Jerusalem Post, June 20, 2025 — Ben-Gvir/Karhi require military censor approval for foreign broadcasts.
JNS, June 19, 2025 — police halt foreign broadcasts of missile impact sites.
Times of Israel (AFP), March 10, 2026 — Israel, Iran, Gulf states restrict war coverage.
Times of Israel, Feb 25, 2015 — Kerry on Netanyahu's Iraq advocacy.

The June 2025 Twelve-Day War

Section: The June 2025 Twelve-Day War

Times of Israel liveblog, June 13, 2025 — Rising Lion opening, commanders killed
Times of Israel liveblog, June 15, 2025 — Tamra
Times of Israel liveblog, June 22, 2025 — Netanyahu on the enriched uranium
Times of Israel liveblog, June 24, 2025 — "ISRAEL. DO NOT DROP THOSE BOMBS"; "down the drain"
Times of Israel, June 24, 2025, the war by the numbers (Emanuel Fabian) — 550 missiles, 1,000 drones, 28 killed
Times of Israel, the 28 victims
Times of Israel, Bat Yam strike
Times of Israel, IRIB state TV hit on air
Times of Israel, Soroka hospital hit
Times of Israel, Soroka rebuilding funds
Times of Israel, June 24, 2025, four killed in Beersheba
Times of Israel, June 30, 2025, Iran raises toll to 935 — with HRANA figures
Times of Israel, Pentagon: set back up to two years
Times of Israel, July 17, 2025, only Fordo badly set back; Trump rejected wider op
Times of Israel, defense minister warns Hezbollah
Jerusalem Post, June 13, 2025, Herb Keinon on the Begin Doctrine — Osirak 1981, Syria 2007, Iran 2025
Jerusalem Post, June 20, 2025, the 14-month build-up (Yonah Jeremy Bob) — Mossad's Barnea, "10 to 15 nuclear weapons"
Jerusalem Post, Iran FM blames IAEA after Grossi remark
Jerusalem Post, Ratcliffe confirms damage
Jerusalem Post, July 6, 2025, why Hezbollah stayed out
Jerusalem Post, May 22, 2026, US interceptor use
Haaretz, October 4, 2012, Netanyahu's Iraq 2002 and Iran 2012 speeches compared

Who Pushed the Iran War

Section: Who Pushed the Iran War

Jerusalem Post, June 22, 2025, Amichai Stein — Netanyahu and Dermer "succeeded in convincing the US administration to get involved."
Times of Israel, April 8, 2026 — Feb 11, 2026 Situation Room pitch; Ratcliffe "farcical."
Jerusalem Post, April 9, 2026 — "hard sell"; Trump "Sounds good to me."
Haaretz, April 12, 2026 — Ambassador Leiter: "I was in the room."
JNS — pro-Israel PAC spending up in 2024.
Netanyahu presented Iran attack plan to former US presidents, former secretary of state claims — Jerusalem Post (Tzvi Jasper), April 12, 2026

Official Records

Laws, bill text, roll-call votes, government reports, court records, and primary documents.

Greater Israel

Section: Greater Israel

Jewish Virtual Library, Likud original party platform (1977) — "between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty"; settlement in all parts of the Land of Israel
Peace Now, Annus Mirabilis report, July 2026 — 185 outposts, 102 settlements, 40,064 housing units, 118 communities expelled, 2023 to early 2026; "a single policy"
Alan Weiler, AUPHR, 2014, reproducing the 1999 Likud platform
American Rhetoric, Netanyahu at the City of David, 15 September 2025
CNN transcript, 20 March 2024
J Street report, June 2026
Jewish Virtual Library, Lehi
Likud constitution (2014), Hebrew PDF
Nadav Na'aman, Tel Aviv 7 (1980)
Politics Stack Exchange answer on settlement land area

Pentagon Plan for Greater Israel's List of Wars

Section: Pentagon Plan for Greater Israel's List of Wars

Rumsfeld, "Strategic Thoughts," Memorandum for the President, Sept 30, 2001 (National Security Archive EBB 358, Doc 13) — "New regimes in Afghanistan and another key State (or two)"; "Iraqis, Lebanese, Sudanese"; "Syria out of Lebanon"
National Security Archive, Electronic Briefing Book No. 358, Sept 11, 2011 — the collection that released the Rumsfeld memo
DoD Inspector General, Report No. 07-INTEL-04, Feb 9, 2007, summary (PDF via NPR) — Feith's office's Iraq–al-Qaida assessments "not illegal or unauthorized" but "inappropriate"
Full declassified DoD IG report on Feith's office, April 2007 (archived Levin Senate PDF) — full review
House Committee on Government Reform, "Conflict with Iraq: An Israeli Perspective," Sept 12, 2002, Serial No. 107–139 (govinfo) — Netanyahu under oath: "enormous positive reverberations"; Iraq as a "brick"; Iran and Libya "implosion"
DoD News Briefing, Deputy Secretary Wolfowitz, Sept 13, 2001 (Avalon Project) — "ending states who sponsor terrorism"
State Department, Secretary Rice Special Briefing, July 21, 2006 (archived) — "the birth pangs of a new Middle East"
U.N. press release, Resolution 1973, March 17, 2011 — Libya no-fly zone, "all necessary measures"
White House, Obama address on Libya, March 28, 2011 — U.S. strikes on Qaddafi's forces
White House, Statement by President Trump on Syria, April 13, 2018 — U.S. strikes on Syria
Joint Statement of the United States, Sudan, and Israel, Oct 23, 2020 — Sudan off terror list; normalization with Israel
A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm, IASPS, 1996 (PDF, dougfeith.com) — primary text and participant list
Oded Yinon, "A Strategy for Israel in the Nineteen Eighties," Kivunim Feb 1982, trans. Israel Shahak, AAUG 1982 (Internet Archive PDF) — primary text
Internet Archive item, A Strategy for Israel in the Nineteen Eighties — second copy
PNAC letter to President Clinton on Iraq, Jan 26, 1998 (archived) — 18 signers incl. Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Perle, Bolton
PNAC, Rebuilding America's Defenses, Sept 2000 (archived PDF) — "new Pearl Harbor," p. 51
PNAC letter to President Bush, Sept 20, 2001 (archived) — remove Saddam "even if evidence does not link Iraq directly to the attack"; retaliation against Iran and Syria
The Black Vault, Rumsfeld "snowflake" collection — 60,000+ pages of Rumsfeld memos
DoD Inspector General, Review of Pre-Iraqi War Activities of OUSD(P), 07-INTEL-04, full report (PDF) — National Security Archive, 2007
Congressional Record, Senate, 2004, S7223 (Clean Break) — U.S. Senate, 2004
Congressional Record, Senate, S14173 ("Netanyahu rejected 'Clean Break'") — U.S. Senate, December 20, 2005
Congressional Record, House, H4336 (Bamford on Wurmser 2001 paper) — U.S. House, June 9, 2005
Clark testimony, House Armed Services Committee — GlobalSecurity.org transcript, September 26, 2002
UK House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee, Libya report (PDF) — UK Parliament, September 2016
NBC Meet the Press transcript, Clark and Russert — NBC News, November 16, 2003
CNN transcript, Clark on Iran strikes — CNN, June 21, 2025
Douglas Feith, "Feith For The Record" on Clean Break — dougfeith.com
A Clean Break, IASPS page (Wayback Machine) — archived 2011
Yinon, "A Strategy for Israel in the Nineteen Eighties" (Internet Archive) — Kivunim 14, February 1982

Law Passed to Force Citizens into the Draft as Soldiers

Section: Law Passed to Force Citizens into the Draft as Soldiers

Public Law 119-60 (FY2026 NDAA), GovInfo details — enacted Dec 18, 2025, vehicle S. 1071
Public Law 119-60, official PDF — Sec. 535 automatic Selective Service registration, 139 Stat. 871-872; strikes 50 U.S.C. 3811(g)
CRS Insight IN12653, FY2026 NDAA: Status of Legislative Activity — House 312-112 (Dec 10, 2025), Senate 77-20 (Dec 17, 2025)
CRS Insight IN12450, FY2025 NDAA: Selective Service Registration Proposals (Jan 29, 2025) — automatic registration and women ("every citizen") proposals dropped; Supreme Court 2021
CRS, The War Powers Resolution: Concepts and Practice (R42699) — concurrent resolutions and INS v. Chadha
50 U.S.C. chapter 49, Military Selective Service Act (Cornell LII) — full statute
50 U.S.C. 3802 — registration requirement
50 U.S.C. 3803 — induction power "whether or not a state of war exists"; ages 18.5-26
50 U.S.C. 3806 — conscientious objectors (j), student postponement (i)
50 U.S.C. 3811 — penalties, 5 years / $10,000 in statute text
50 U.S.C. 3815 — no induction after July 1, 1973
10 U.S.C. 12301 — full mobilization (needs Congress)
10 U.S.C. 12302 — partial mobilization, 1,000,000 for 24 months
10 U.S.C. 12304 — presidential reserve call-up, 200,000 incl. 30,000 IRR
10 U.S.C. 12305 — stop-loss
10 U.S.C. 12406 — federalizing the National Guard
Selective Service System, SSS 101 guide (2023) — sequence of events, lottery order (20-year-olds first), last prosecution 1983, 41 driver's-license states
Selective Service System, Benefits and Penalties — felony, $250,000 and/or 5 years
Selective Service System, FAQ — only "male persons"; no pre-classification as conscientious objector
Selective Service System, FY2026 Congressional Budget Justification — declining registration after FAFSA change; $31.3M
Federal Register, June 17, 2021, FAFSA Simplification Act early implementation — federal student aid no longer tied to registration
Executive Order 13912, March 27, 2020 — reserve call-up by EO (precedent)
Executive Order 14102, July 13, 2023 — reserve call-up by EO (precedent)
Federal Register, southern-border national emergency continuation notice (July 2025) — only 2025-26 presidential doc mentioning Ready Reserve
House Clerk roll call 85, Mar 5, 2026 — H.Con.Res. 38 (Massie) failed 212-219
House Clerk roll call 114, Apr 16, 2026 — H.Con.Res. 40 (Meeks) failed 213-214
House Clerk roll call 170, May 14, 2026 — H.Con.Res. 75 (Gottheimer) failed 212-212
House Clerk roll call 199, Jun 3, 2026 — H.Con.Res. 86 (Meeks) passed 215-208
House Clerk roll call 282, Jul 23, 2026 — H.Con.Res. 89 (Jayapal) passed 214-208
Senate roll-call list, 119th Congress 2nd session — 14 Iran war-powers votes in 2026
Senate vote 328, Jun 27, 2025 — S.J.Res. 59 (Kaine) discharge rejected 47-53
Senate vote 648, Dec 17, 2025 — FY2026 NDAA final, 77-20
Senate vote 46, Mar 4, 2026 — S.J.Res. 104 discharge rejected 47-53
Senate vote 129, May 19, 2026 — S.J.Res. 185 discharged 50-47
Senate vote 184, Jun 23, 2026 — H.Con.Res. 86 adopted 50-48
Senate vote 244, Sep 24, 2026 — H.Con.Res. 89 rejected 49-50
Congress.gov, H.Con.Res. 38, 40, 75, 86, 89 — Iran war-powers resolutions (sponsors confirmed via GovInfo BILLSTATUS)
Congress.gov, S. 4537 — bill to repeal the MSSA; Wyden, Paul, Lummis; May 14, 2026
Sen. Josh Hawley, letter opposing FY23 NDAA women's registration — organized opposition
Rules Committee Print 119-16, Dec 7, 2025 (text of House amendment to S. 1071, hosted by Hasbrouck) — Section 535 text
OIRA record, withdrawn SSS automatic-registration rule — "Concluded Action: Withdrawn," July 23, 2026
SSS FY2027 Congressional Budget Justification — SSS, Feb 2026
Selective Service System, return to the draft — SSS
50 U.S.C. 1547 (War Powers Resolution sec. 8) — no authority inferred from other legislation
10 U.S.C. 688 — recall of retirees
Moulton press release: House passes war powers resolution — Sept 15, 2026
reginfo.gov — cited on Automatic Draft Registration: Section 535 of the 2026 Defense Bill