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116TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. RES. 441 

A resolution condemning the attack on the AMIA Jewish Community Center 

in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in July 1994 and expressing the concern 

of the United States regarding the continuing, 25-year-long delay in 

the resolution of this case and encouraging accountability for the attack. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

JUNE 13, 2019 

Mr. DEUTCH (for himself, Mr. WILSON of South Carolina, Mr. SIRES, and Mr. 

ROONEY of Florida) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs 

RESOLUTION 

A resolution condemning the attack on the AMIA Jewish 

Community Center in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in July 

1994 and expressing the concern of the United States 

regarding the continuing, 25-year-long delay in the resolution of this case and encouraging accountability for 

the attack. 

Whereas, 25 years ago, on July 18, 1994, 85 innocent people 

were killed and 300 were wounded when the Argentine 

Jewish Mutual Association (AMIA) was bombed in Buenos Aires, Argentina; 

Whereas, 2 years earlier, Hezbollah operatives also blew up 

the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires, killing 29 civilians; 


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Whereas it is reported that considerable evidence links the attack to the terrorist group Hezbollah, which is based in 

Lebanon, supported by the Government of the Syrian 

Arab Republic, and sponsored by the Government of the 

Islamic Republic of Iran; 

Whereas the 25 years since the bombing have been marked 

by a failure to bring those responsible, including Iranian 

officials and their Hezbollah proxies, to justice; 

Whereas, in September 2004, Alberto Nisman was appointed 

as the Special Prosecutor in charge of the 1994 AMIA 

bombing investigation; 

Whereas, on October 25, 2006, Argentine prosecutors Alberto 

Nisman and Marcelo Martı ́nez Burgos formally accused 

the Government of Iran of directing the bombing, and the 

Hezbollah militia of carrying it out; 

Whereas Ibrahim Hussein Berro, a member of the terrorist 

group Hezbollah, was identified as the AMIA bomber; 

Whereas, in November 2006, an Argentine judge issued arrest warrants for Iranian nationals Ali Fallahijan (former 

Iranian intelligence minister), Mohsen Rabbani (former 

Iranian cultural attache ́), Ahmad Reza Asghari (former 

Iranian diplomat), Ahmad Vahidi (former Iranian defense 

minister), Ali Akbar Velayati (former Iranian foreign 

minister), Mohsen Rezaee (former chief commander of 

the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps), Ali 

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani (former President of Iran), 

Hadi Soleimanpour (former Iranian Ambassador to Argentina), and Lebanese national Imad Fayez Moughnieh 

who were named as suspects in the AMIA bombing; 

Whereas, in November 2007, INTERPOL voted to put the 

following suspects in the 1994 AMIA attack on its most 


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wanted list—Ali Fallahijan, Mohsen Rabbani, Ahmad 

Reza Asghari, Ahmad Vahidi, and Mohsen Razaee from 

Iran and Imad Fayez Moughnieh from Lebanon; 

Whereas Interpol currently has 4 red alerts in place in relation to the AMIA attack; 

Whereas, on January 13, 2015, prosecutor Alberto Nisman 

alleged in a complaint that then-Argentinian President 

Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner and then-Minister of 

Foreign Relations Hector Timerman conspired to cover 

up Iranian involvement in the 1994 terrorist bombing, 

and reportedly agreed to negotiate immunity for Iranian 

suspects and help get their names removed from the 

INTERPOL list; 

Whereas prosecutor Alberto Nisman was scheduled to present 

his new findings to the Argentinian Congress on January 

19, 2015; 

Whereas prosecutor Alberto Nisman was found shot in the 

head in his apartment in Buenos Aires on January 18, 

2015; 

Whereas the investigation of the AMIA bombing has been 

marked by judicial misconduct; 

Whereas, in March 2019, an Argentine court handed down 

convictions and sentences, finding that the judge, prosecutors, and head of the Argentina’s secret services—the 

individuals responsible for investigating the AMIA bombing, Argentina’s deadliest terrorist attack—had interfered 

with the inquiry, diverting the investigation away from 

the truth; 

Whereas former Federal judge Juan Jose ́ Galeano was handed down a 6-year conviction by the court, which will not 


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be enforced until the sentence is confirmed by a higher 

tribunal; 

Whereas former State Intelligence Secretariat (SIDE) intelligence head Hugo Anzorreguy was handed a prison sentence of 54 months; 

Whereas Carlos Telleldı ́n, a used car dealer who sold the van 

that contained the bomb used to attack AMIA and received a bribe to incriminate police officers falsely, was 

sentenced to 42 months in jail; and 

Whereas no Iranian suspects for the AMIA bombing have yet 

faced prosecution: Now, therefore, be it 

1 Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 

2 (1) reiterates its strongest condemnation of the 

3 1994 attack on the AMIA Jewish Community Cen4 ter in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and honors the vic5 tims of this heinous act; 

6 (2) expresses its sympathy to the relatives of 

7 the victims, who have waited a quarter of a century 

8 without justice for the loss of their loved ones, and 

9 may have to wait even longer for justice to be 

10 served; 

11 (3) underscores the concern of the United 

12 States regarding the continuing, 25-year-long delay 

13 in the proper resolution of this case; and 


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1 (4) expresses strong support for accountability 

2 for this attack, including against those Iranian and 

3 Hezbollah operatives who were responsible. 

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