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117TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION S. RES. 730 

Remembering the 30th anniversary of the bombing of the Embassy of Israel 

in Buenos Aires on March 17, 1992, the 28th anniversary of the bombing 

of the Argentine-Israeli Mutual Association building in Buenos Aires 

on July 18, 1994, and recommitting to efforts to uphold justice for 

the victims of the attacks. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

JULY 28, 2022 

Mr. RUBIO (for himself, Mr. MENENDEZ, Mr. COTTON, Mr. CARDIN, Mr. 

KAINE, and Mr. COONS) submitted the following resolution; which was 

referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations 

RESOLUTION 

Remembering the 30th anniversary of the bombing of the 

Embassy of Israel in Buenos Aires on March 17, 1992, 

the 28th anniversary of the bombing of the ArgentineIsraeli Mutual Association building in Buenos Aires on 

July 18, 1994, and recommitting to efforts to uphold 

justice for the victims of the attacks. 

Whereas, on March 17, 1992, a truck laden with explosives 

struck and detonated at the Embassy of Israel in Buenos 

Aires, Argentina, killing 29 people and wounding more 

than 200 others; 


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Whereas Argentina is home to the largest Jewish community 

in Latin America—and the sixth largest in the world, 

outside Israel; 

Whereas, in 1999, the Supreme Court of Argentina, after 

conducting an investigation, found that the Lebanese terrorist organization Hezbollah was responsible for the 

bombing, which claimed the lives of Israeli diplomats, 

their relatives, and numerous Argentine citizens and children; 

Whereas, 2 years after the bombing of the Embassy of Israel 

in Argentina, on July 18, 1994, a car bomb detonated at 

the Argentine Israelite Mutual Association (AMIA) Jewish Community Center building in Buenos Aires, killing 

85 people and wounding more than 300 others, rendering 

it the deadliest terrorist attack in Argentina’s history; 

Whereas, for 25 years, the investigation into the AMIA 

bombing has been stymied by international inaction, political interference, investigative misconduct, and allegations of cover-ups, including the removal of the Federal 

judge in charge of the case in 2005 for ‘‘serious’’ irregularities in his handling of the case; 

Whereas, in October 2006, Argentine prosecutors Alberto 

Nisman and Marcelo Martı ́n Burgos formally accused the 

Government of Iran of directing Hezbollah to carry out 

the AMIA bombing; 

Whereas the Argentine prosecutors charged the following Iranian nationals as suspects in the AMIA bombing: 

(1) Ali Fallahijan, Iran’s former intelligence minister; 

(2) Mohsen Rabbani, Iran’s former cultural attache ́

in Buenos Aires; 


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(3) Ahmad Reza Asghari, a former Iranian diplomat 

posted to Argentina; 

(4) Ahmad Vahidi, Iran’s former defense minister; 

(5) Ali Akbar Velayati, Iran’s former foreign minister; 

(6) Mohsen Rezaee, former chief commander of the 

Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps; 

(7) Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, former President 

of Iran; and 

(8) Hadi Soleimanpour, former Iranian ambassador 

to Argentina; 

Whereas, in November 2007, the International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL) published Red Notices 

on 5 of the Iranian nationals and Hezbollah operative 

Ibrahim Hussein Berro; 

Whereas those with INTERPOL Red Notices have repeatedly 

traveled internationally with impunity on more than 20 

occasions since 2007; 

Whereas, in May 2013, Argentine prosecutor Alberto Nisman 

published a 500-page report accusing the Government of 

Iran of establishing terrorist networks throughout Latin 

America; 

Whereas, in January 2015, Mr. Nisman released the results 

of an investigation alleging that then-President 

Fernandez de Kirchner and then-Foreign Minister 

Timerman conspired to cover up Iranian involvement in 

the 1994 AMIA bombing and that they had agreed to negotiate immunity for Iranian suspects and secure the removal of the INTERPOL Red Notices; 

Whereas Mr. Nisman was scheduled to present his findings 

to a commission of the Argentine National Congress on 


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January 19, 2015, but on January 18, 2015, was found 

dead as the result of a gunshot wound to his head in his 

apartment in Buenos Aires; and 

Whereas, to date, no one has been brought to justice for the 

1992 bombing of the Israeli Embassy in Argentina, the 

1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish Community Center in 

Buenos Aires, or the death of Argentine prosecutor 

Alberto Nisman: Now, therefore, be it 

1 Resolved, That the Senate— 

2 (1) reiterates its strongest condemnation of the 

3 1992 attack on the Israeli Embassy in Argentina 

4 and the 1994 attack on the Argentine Israelite Mu5 tual Association (AMIA) Jewish Community Center 

6 in Buenos Aires; 

7 (2) honors the victims of the 1992 bombing of 

8 the Israeli Embassy in Argentina and the 1994 

9 AMIA bombing, and expresses its sympathy to the 

10 relatives of the victims, who are still waiting for jus11 tice; 

12 (3) underscores the concern of the United 

13 States regarding the continuing, decades-long delay 

14 in resolving the 1992 and 1994 terrorist attacks in 

15 Argentina, and urges the President of the United 

16 States to offer technical assistance to the Govern17 ment of Argentina to support the ongoing investiga18 tions; 


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1 (4) urges the Government of Argentina and the 

2 international community to continue efforts to bring 

3 the perpetrators of the March 17, 1992, and July 

4 18, 1994, terrorist attacks to justice, including en5 forcing the INTERPOL Red Notices and extending 

6 them when they are up for review in November 

7 2022; 

8 (5) commends the Government of Argentina for 

9 designating Hezbollah as a terrorist organization 

10 and urges other United States allies and partners in 

11 Latin America and the Caribbean to do the same; 

12 and 

13 (6) commends the Government of Argentina for 

14 adopting the International Holocaust Remembrance 

15 Alliance working definition of antisemitism and en16 courages other partners and allies to do the same. 

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