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Iranian Firm Wins Indian Oil Rig Renovation Tender

TEHRAN (FNA)- The Iranian Offshore Engineering and Construction Company won a contract to repair Indian oil rigs, an official said. Deputy director for projects Nozar Aryan said Saturday that under the $210-million contract, the Iranian company will renovate six drilling rigs in India. The project, which will be launched in …

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Afghanistan ‘tougher than Iraq’

US President Barack Obama’s envoy to Afghanistan has said that winning the conflict there will be “much tougher” than in Iraq. Richard Holbrooke told a conference in Munich: “I have never seen anything like the mess we have inherited.” Nato defence ministers at the security conference differed on whether the …

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US “Acknowledges Serbia’s Hague Efforts”

The United States has for the first time acknowledged Serbia’s efforts to arrest the remaining two war crime fugitives, Ratko Mladic and Goran Hadzic, and hand them over to the United Nations court in The Hague, said Rasim Ljajic, Serbia’s point man for cooperation with the Tribunal. After meeting the …

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