Can't be officially verified because of the crack down on the media there. But from another article posted today by the AP: "Obama officials say talks with Iran still possible".

From within that article: "Both Rice and David Axelrod, Obama's top adviser, said Ahmadinejad doesn't appear to have the final say over Iran's foreign policy. Axelrod, dismissing Ahmadinejad's harsh language against the U.S. and Obama as "bloviations," said being open to talks with Iran is not an effort to reward the country.

"We are looking to ... sit down and talk to the Iranians and offer them two paths. And one brings them back into the community of nations, and the other has some very stark consequences," .

The Iranians they would have to be speaking to are the clerics and they are more fanatical than even Ahmadinejad. (what babes)