"Iran's incoming President Hassan Rouhani... offered an olive branch to the United States in talks on Tehran's disputed nuclear program... that he was "seriously determined" to resolve the dispute and was ready to enter "serious and substantive" negotiations... Rouhani said Iran would not abandon its nuclear program, which it would uphold "on the basis of international law... However, we are for negotiations and interaction. We are prepared, seriously and without wasting time, to enter negotiations which are serious and substantive..."
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/07/us-iran-nuclear-idUSBRE9750Q020130807