The official X account of The White House has released a montage of footage from 'Operation Epic Fury', the military offensive it began on February 28 alongside Israel against Iran. Bizarrely, the montage of torpedoes hitting warships and airstrikes hitting targets actually begins with footage from 2023's Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3, and CoD references are scattered throughout. In response to the video, one of the original founding developers of Infinity Ward (and thus the Call of Duty franchise) has described this as unsurprising, claiming that there was previously "awkward pressure" from parent company Activision to make a game "about Iran attacking Israel."