Los Angeles Times: Iran has test-fired a precision air-to-surface missile with a 70-mile range, a news agency reported Sunday, a capability that could threaten ships in the Persian Gulf.

AFP: US-Iranian journalist Roxana Saberi has been able to meet with a lawyer for the first time since she was detained in a Tehran prison more than a month ago, the attorney said on Monday.

Reuters: Iran said on Monday the United States was failing in Afghanistan and that a new approach was needed, four days after Washington said it would invite Tehran to an international conference to discuss its neighbor.

AFP: Iran said on Sunday it "successfully" tested a new air-to-sea missile with a range of 110 kilometres (68 miles), the Fars news agency reported. It did not say when the test was conducted.

Reuters: OPEC members have complied well with sharp production cuts agreed since September to shore up falling oil prices, top officials from Qatar and Iran said on Sunday.

AFP: Iran's parliament on Sunday approved a budget of 298 billion dollars for the year to March 2010 that was submitted by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in January, the official IRNA news agency said.

Reuters: Iran's oil minister called for cooperation between crude producers inside and outside OPEC, saying it was necessary in view of the global economic downturn, the official IRNA news agency reported.

AFP: The US State Department on Sunday reiterated its call for Iran to help locate Robert Levinson, a former FBI agent who went missing on an island in the Gulf two years ago.

AFP: Afghan President Hamid Karzai is to visit Iran to attend an economic summit of regional countries beginning Wednesday in Tehran, Hamshahri newspaper reported.