IV 
117TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. RES. 1231 
Condemning the attack on the Argentine Jewish Mutual Association Jewish 
Community Center in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in July 1994 and ex-
pressing the concern of the United States regarding the continuing, 
28-year-long delay in the resolution of this case and encouraging account-
ability for the attack. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JULY 18, 2022 
Ms. WASSERMAN SCHULTZ (for herself, Mr. DEUTCH, Mr. DIAZ-BALART, and 
Mr. ESPAILLAT) submitted the following resolution; which was referred 
to the Committee on Foreign Affairs 
RESOLUTION 
Condemning the attack on the Argentine Jewish Mutual As-
sociation Jewish Community Center in Buenos Aires, 
Argentina, in July 1994 and expressing the concern of 
the United States regarding the continuing, 28-year-long 
delay in the resolution of this case and encouraging 
accountability for the attack. 
Whereas, 28 years ago, on July 18, 1994, 85 innocent people 
were killed and 300 were injured when the Argentine 
Jewish Mutual Association (AMIA) was bombed in Bue-
nos Aires, Argentina; 
Whereas the AMIA bombing was the deadliest attack on Jew-
ish people outside Israel since the Holocaust; 
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Whereas it is reported that considerable evidence links the at-
tack 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, 2 years earlier, Hezbollah operatives also blew up 
the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires, killing 29 civilians; 
Whereas the 28 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, ten years after the attack, 
Alberto Nisman was appointed as the Special Prosecutor 
in charge of the 1994 AMIA bombing investigation; 
Whereas, in October 2006, Argentine prosecutors Alberto 
Nisman and Marcelo Martı´nez Burgos formally accused 
the Iranian regime 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 ar-
rest warrants for 8 Iranian nationals, including high- 
ranking government and military officials, and one Leba-
nese national who were named as suspects in the AMIA 
bombing; 
Whereas, in November 2007, Interpol voted to put the fol-
lowing suspects in the 1994 AMIA attack on its most 
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 four red alerts in place in re-
lation to the AMIA attack; 
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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 and undue influence; 
Whereas no Iranian suspects for the AMIA bombing have yet 
faced prosecution; 
Whereas former Federal judge Juan Jose´ Galeano and 
former State Intelligence Secretariat intelligence head 
Hugo Anzorreguy have both been convicted and sen-
tenced to prison for subverting the investigation and mis-
carriage of justice; 
Whereas Carlos Telleldı´n was convicted and sentenced to 
prison for his role in assisting the perpetrators carry out 
their heinous attack; 
Whereas, in 2020, Argentine President Alberto Fernandez re-
affirmed the commitment of the Argentine Republic to 
bring those responsible for the attack to justice; 
Whereas, in 2021, Ahmad Vahidi and Mohsen Rezai, two Ira-
nian suspects from the 1994 bombing, were appointed by 
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President Ebrahim Raisi and confirmed by the Islamic 
Consultative Assembly to the Iranian Cabinet; 
Whereas, in 2019, the Argentine Government declared 
Hezbollah a terrorist organization, expelled all members 
of the organization from the country, and froze their as-
sets in Argentina; and 
Whereas today, Argentina is home to over 250,000 Jewish 
people, making it the largest home to Jews in Latin 
America and the sixth-largest in the world: Now, there-
fore, be it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
(1) condemns the 1994 attack on the Argentine 
Jewish Mutual Association Jewish Community Cen-
ter in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and honors the vic-
tims of this heinous act; 
(2) expresses sympathy to the relatives of the 
victims, who have waited for over a quarter of a cen-
tury without justice for the loss of their loved ones, 
and may have to wait even longer for justice to be 
served; 
(3) underscores the concern of the United 
States regarding the continuing, 28-year-long delay 
in the proper resolution of this case; and 
(4) calls for the perpetrators of this horrific act, 
including Iranian and Hezbollah operatives, to be 
held accountable for their crimes. 
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