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The exact timing of Israel’s intended assault on Iran was a well-guarded secret.
However, an unusual activity on Washington pizza delivery trackers hinted at an impending event before the initial strikes occurred.
Roughly an hour prior to Iranian state television broadcasting reports of loud detonations in Tehran, a noticeable increase in pizza orders around the Pentagon was observed. This was reported by a trending X account reputedly providing “valuable intel” on “nighttime activity surges” at the U.S. military headquarters.

“By 6:59 pm ET, nearly all pizza outlets in the vicinity of the Pentagon witnessed a MASSIVE increase in orders,” shared the account Pentagon Pizza Report on Thursday.

‘Busy night at the Pentagon’

Not confining its analysis to pizza, the account noted three hours later that a gay bar near the Pentagon had “abnormally low traffic for a Thursday night” and said this probably pointed to “a busy night at the Pentagon”.

While not entirely scientific, the Pentagon pizza hypothesis “isn’t just an internet fabrication,” as highlighted by The Takeout, a digital publication focusing on food and restaurant trends, earlier this year.

Pentagon-adjacent pizza joints also got much busier than usual during Israel’s 2024 missile strike on Iran, it said, as there are “a multitude of fast food restaurants in the Pentagon complex, but no pizza places”.
Pizza deliveries to the Pentagon reportedly doubled right before the US invasion of Panama in December 1989, and surged again before Operation Desert Storm in 1991.
US President Donald Trump told The Wall Street Journal he was fully aware in advance of the bombing campaign, which Israel says is needed to end Iran’s nuclear program. “We know what’s going on.”
For the rest of Americans, pepperoni pie activity was not the only way to tell something was about to happen.

Washington had already announced it was moving some diplomats and their families out of the Middle East on Wednesday.

Firefighters working amid the rubble of a building which has been hit by a missile.

Israel’s attack on Iran involved more than 200 fighter jets which hit more than 100 targets. Source: AP / Vahid Salemi/AP

And close to an hour before Israel unleashed its firepower on Iran, the US ambassador in Jerusalem, Mike Huckabee, sent out a rather revealing X post: “At our embassy in Jerusalem and closely monitoring the situation. We will remain here all night. ‘Pray for the peace of Jerusalem!'”

Iran says talks with US over nuclear program ‘meaningless’ now

Iran has accused the U.S. of being an accomplice in Israel’s attacks, a claim denied by Washington. At the United Nations Security Council, the U.S. advised Iran that it would be “prudent” to discuss its nuclear ambitions.

Iran’s semi-official Tasnim news agency quoted Iran’s foreign ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei saying dialogue with the US over nuclear would be “meaningless” in light of Israel’s strikes.

He said Israel “succeeded in influencing” the diplomatic process, and Friday’s Israeli attack would not have happened without US permission.

A man speaking at a podium. Behind him is an Iranian flag, and the words "Ministry of Foreign Affairs" are written on a blue wall.

Iran’s foreign ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei was quoted as saying nuclear talks with the United States would be “meaningless” in the wake of Israel’s attack, accusing the US of complicity. Source: Getty / Xinhua News Agency

“The other side [the US] acted in a way that makes dialogue meaningless. You cannot claim to negotiate and at the same time divide work by allowing the Zionist regime (Israel) to target Iran’s territory,” Baghaei was quoted as saying.

Iran denies that its uranium enrichment program is for anything other than civilian purposes, rejecting Israeli allegations that it is secretly developing nuclear weapons.
Trump told the Reuters news agency that while he and his team had known the Israeli attacks were coming, they still saw room for an accord.

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