Iran test-fired three short-range missiles Sunday and its nuclear chief said Iran would keep its uranium enrichment level at up to five percent - much lower than bomb-grade . Hossein Salami, air force commander of the elite Revolutionary Guards, said that Monday would also see a test-firing of a long-range missile which Iran says has a range of 1,300-2,000 kilometres (800-1,240 miles) and is capable of hitting Israel. “Tomorrow we will test the long-range Shahab-3 missile,” he told state television. He also told reporters, without elaborating, that the Guards tested a “multiple missile launcher for the first time” Sunday and that later in the day Shahab-1 and Shahab-2 medium-range missiles would be test-fired. Iran's Fars news agency said the multiple launcher could fire two missiles aimed at separate targets simultaneously. Salami said Iran was also now capable of firing missiles from mobile launchers, and called the manoeuvres an “indication” of Iran's “strong will to defend our values and interests.” Earlier, state media reported that the three short-range missiles fired were of the Tondar-69, Fateh-110 and Zelzal type. All three weapons, powered by solid fuel, have a range of between 100 and 400 kilometres (60 and 250 miles). Uranium enrichment “We don't want to change the arrangement of five-percent enrichment merely to produce 150 to 300 kilos of 20-percent (enriched) fuel,” ILNA news agency quoted Iran's Atomic Energy Organization chief Ali Akbar Salehi as saying. He said Iran needed 20-percent fuel for its research reactor in Tehran, and that it will reportedly ask to import enriched fuel of that level when it meets world powers in Geneva on Oct. 1 for talks on its nuclear program. Uranium enrichment lies at the centre of fears over Iran's controversial atomic work as the process to make nuclear fuel can also be used to make the fissile core of an atom bomb in much higher purifications of over 90 percent.
