Iran test-fires short-range missile

08/04/12: Al Jazeera reports Iran has test-fired a new short-range missile equipped with a guidance system it plans to install on all future missiles it builds.  Defense minister Ahmad Vahidi said the test was successful.  The Fateh-110, or Conqueror, is a single-stage solid-propellant, surface-to-surface missile put into service in 2002.  “With the fourth-generation of the Fateh-110 [missile], the armed forces of our country are able to target and destroy land and sea targets, enemy headquarters ... missile seats, ammunition sites, radars and other points,” Vahidi said in quotes carried by Islamic Republic News Agency on Saturday.  The Fateh-110 has a range of around 300 kilometers (180 miles), IRNA reported, meaning it would only be able to strike Iran’s immediate neighbors.