A survivor of last week's missile attack on a tanker in the Strait of Hormuz has broken his silence, claiming a crewmate was thrown overboard and is still missing. The source, speaking on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisal, described scenes of chaos as a missile tore through the vessel's bridge. I saw my friend blown into the water.
They won't let us search for him," the man told this reporter in a hushed phone call. The attack, which the Pentagon blames on Iranian-backed forces, has reignited fears of a broader conflict in the chokepoint that carries a fifth of the world's oil.
But the survivor's account raises questions about the official narrative. He alleges the ship's owners, a shadowy conglomerate registered in the Marshall Islands, ordered the crew to downplay the incident. They told us to say it was an engine fire.
They're hiding something." Documents obtained by this desk show the vessel, the MV Prosperity, has changed hands three times in the past year, each time through a shell company. Its current owner, a firm based in Dubai, has no public record of operations.
The missing crewman, identified as a 32-year-old from Bangladesh, has not been reported to maritime authorities. The company's Dubai office did not respond to calls. Meanwhile, the US Navy has deployed an additional destroyer to the region, citing "
unacceptable aggression." But if the survivor's story holds, the real aggression may come from boardrooms, not battlefields. This is a story of money, oil, and lives that wash away in the night.
