Overview

• The X account Pentagon Pizza Report logged a “HUGE surge” in orders at four Arlington pizza shops around 7 p.m. ET on June 12 just hours before Israel’s Operation Rising Lion struck Iranian targets.
• The Department of Defense rejected the index’s premise, noting on-site food concessions and disputing the timeline of external deliveries.
• Zenobia Homan of King’s College London and other analysts warn that confirmation bias and insufficient data weaken the theory’s predictive reliability.
• Secretary of State Marco Rubio reiterated that the United States was not involved in Israel’s strikes and stressed America’s priority is safeguarding its forces in the region.
• President Trump is reported to be weighing options to join Israel in strikes on Iranian nuclear sites, including a potential target at Fordow, after consulting his national security team.