Iran test fires longer-range missile

Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards test-fired dozen of missiles, including the long-range Shahab-3, during the first hours of new military manoeuvres, Iranian state-run television said today.

The report said several kinds of short-range missiles were also fired in a central desert area of Iran during the manoeuvres, which came two days after US-led warships finished an exercise in the Gulf that Tehran described as “adventurist”.