Sri Lanka to handle Iranian vessel under int'l law: president

COLOMBO, March 6 (Xinhua) -- Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake said Thursday that the government has taken over operations concerning the Iranian ship IRIS Bushehr and its crew under international conventions as a neutral state, as authorities move to bring the crew ashore and relocate the ship away from the country's main commercial harbor.

IRIS Bushehr is an Iranian naval vessel which had taken par