(260306) -- COLOMBO, March 6, 2026 (Xinhua) -- Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake speaks at a news conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, March 5, 2026. 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. (Sri Lankan President Media Division/Handout via Xinhua)
