White House frames Iran strikes with Call of Duty footage

The White House's official X account posted a video that opens with a clip from 2023's Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 and then cuts to footage of the US-Israeli war on Iran, overlaying images of missile strikes with score pop-ups from the game series. The video begins with a player calling in an MGB strike — a difficult-to-unlock, game-ending killstreak that summons an aircraft to drop several missiles and instantly win the match.

It then shows a montage of aircraft and missile launches followed by explosive strikes on Iranian military installations and vehicles, including Wednesday's sinking of the Iranian frigate Iris Dena off the coast of Sri Lanka, which cost at least 87 lives. Each strike is accompanied by a "+100" pop-up graphic, a reference to older Call of Duty titles.

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