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Pentagon Pizza Surge Preceded Israel’s Airstrikes as Iran Launched Missile Retaliation

A surge in Arlington pizza deliveries revived a Cold War-era open-source signal that coincided with Tehran’s missile barrage on Israeli cities.

This picture taken 26 December 2011 shows the Pentagon building in Washington, DC.
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'Pizza Index' theory has gone viral amid rising tensions between Israel and Iran.
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Overview

  • The X account Pentagon Pizza Report logged a dramatic spike in deliveries near the Pentagon at about 6:59 p.m. ET on June 12, hours before Israel’s June 13 airstrikes on Iranian nuclear and military sites.
  • Advocates of the “Pizza Index” point to its Cold War origins in Soviet monitoring of food deliveries and note similar order surges before the 1989 U.S. invasion of Panama, Operation Desert Storm in 1991 and a 2024 Iran-Israel drone skirmish.
  • Israel’s Operation Lion deployed more than 200 fighter jets to strike targets in Tehran and other locations in an effort to derail Iran’s nuclear program.
  • Iran’s retaliatory missile attacks late Friday targeted Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, setting off air raid sirens and prompting Israel’s air defenses to intercept multiple incoming rockets.
  • President Donald Trump said he was briefed in advance of the strikes and U.S. forces assisted Israel in defending against the subsequent Iranian missile barrage.