What Is Iran Willing to Talk About?

President Barack Obama’s agreement this past weekend to have the U.S. join talks between Iran and six major nations next month immediately appeared stillborn when Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said his nation will not stop enriching uranium and will not negotiate over its right to a nuclear program.

But The Daily Beast received conflicting signs in an exclusive interview with Ali Asghar Soltanieh, Iran’s ambassador to the U.N. watchdog International Atomic Energy Agency, who vowed that Iran is willing to discuss anything. This comes on the heels of a statement by Iranian Vice President Ali Akbar Salehi, the head of the Atomic Energy Agency of Iran, who told reporters in Vienna on Monday: “Once it comes to discussion, everyone is free to pose any question they wish.”