According to this article from BBC News, Iran made an offer to the US nearly 4 years ago that corresponds pretty closely to what Washington is demanding from Tehran now, but Dick Cheney turned it down.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6274147.stm

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Iran offered the US a package of concessions in 2003, but it was rejected, a senior former US official has told the BBC's Newsnight programme. 

Tehran proposed ending support for Lebanese and Palestinian militant groups and helping to stabilise Iraq following the US-led invasion. 
Offers, including making its nuclear programme more transparent, were conditional on the US ending hostility. 
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One of the then Secretary of State Colin Powell's top aides told the BBC the state department was keen on the plan - but was over-ruled. "We thought it was a very propitious moment to do that," Lawrence Wilkerson told Newsnight. "But as soon as it got to the White House, and as soon as it got to the Vice-President's office, the old mantra of 'We don't talk to evil'... reasserted itself." 
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Bruce "still don't know what history I revised" Collins

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