It blamed staff at the US Interests Section at the Swiss embassy in Havana.
The price of oil had skyrocketed, and US interests throughout the region were increasingly threatened.
Among those summoned to the foreign ministry was the Swiss envoy who represents US interests in Iran.
Around this time, the administration concluded that Iraq's defeat in the war would be contrary to US interests in the Persian Gulf.
First, Obama mentioned a number of core US interests in the region.
The government expressed regret at the incident - the first attack on US interests in Turkey since the war on Iraq, which many Turks opposed.
He said even when he was special envoy, he had to balance the many US interests in the country, including the need for better intelligence-sharing.
Since 1979 the Swiss Embassy in Teheran has represented US interests.
They understand very well that a future administration may make its own decisions with respect to US interests and how they should be advanced in Iraq.
Rather than believing the fiction that "the enemy of my enemy is my friend, " the Reagan administration advanced US interests by using their rivalry to weaken both.
Saudi Arabia is not the only country with interests and values that conflict with US interests and values that Freeman has championed and earned a living from.
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Indeed, he realized that the very notion that values trumped all represented a fundamental misunderstanding of US interests and of the nature and limits of US power.
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"It is extremely unusual for the US to charge a person who is fighting in a manner that is aligned with US interests, " said public defender Geremy Kamens.
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Since Mubarak was ousted, the ruling military junta has taken actions that signal that Egypt is no longer interested in behaving in a manner that advances US interests.
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Under Mubarak, Egypt advanced US interests in two main ways.
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Mr Bolton is one of the toughest campaigners in the Bush administration for a foreign policy based on US power and catering to narrowly defined US interests, say correspondents.
President Mwai Kibaki described Bin Laden's killing as an act of justice for those Kenyans who lost their lives and suffered injuries in al-Qaeda's first attack on US interests.
In interviews in March he said that Muammar Gaddafi posed no threat to US interests and that no vital US interests are served by the US mission in Libya.
Add to that Obama's electoral concern about looking like he is on the right side of justice and we have a US policy that is wholly antithetical to US interests.
Such a move would have advanced US interests twice.
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Should Colombia falter, the balance of power in the region would change for the worse and the consequences in terms of the increase in drug shipments alone would be contrary to US interests.
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Its strategists were also intensely aware that some enemies to US interests might take a crisis in one part of the world that sucked in the US military to be a green light to start trouble in another.
In her role as UN ambassador, Ms Rice has been credited with representing US interests in negotiations over sanctions against Iran - although some critics say the eventual agreement was not as tough as the US might have liked.
Walt and Mearshimer argue that Iran is not a threat to US interests or to global security because in the event that the mullahs acquire nuclear weapons, they are likely to view them merely as a deterrent against Iran's enemies.
Today the only high-level US diplomat who believes that the purpose of diplomacy is to advance US national interests and not to achieve agreements for their own sake is US Ambassador to the UN John Bolton.
And - as the administration's critics make clear - such a state of affairs would be antithetical to US national interests.
As Heibrunn notes in his profile of Power, she and her colleagues find concerns about US national interests parochial at best and immoral at worst.
Our smartphones can connect us with potential love interests, fellow commuters, and friends around us, why not with doctors?
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Such an embassy in Managua is definitely of concern to US national security interests.
Many of us have childhood interests that we ditch in favor of more socially acceptable, practical or lucrative options.
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