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Whereas the Department of State 2007 International Nar-
cotics Control Strategy Report moved Iran to a ‘‘Juris-
diction of Primary Concern’’; 
Whereas in February 2006, the chairman of the Iranian leg-
islative body announced plans to assist Venezuela with its 
nuclear program; 
Whereas in February 2006, Cuba, Venezuela, and Syria were 
the only 3 member nations of the 35-nation board of the 
International Atomic Energy Agency to vote against re-
ferring Iran to the United Nations Security Council for 
its nuclear program; 
Whereas in January 2007, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the presi-
dent of Iran, made his second visit to Central and South 
America in 5 months to meet with Hugo Chavez, presi-
dent of Venezuela, to visit Daniel Ortega, president of 
Nicaragua, and to attend the inauguration of Rafael 
Correa, president of Ecuador; 
Whereas in February 2007, Mr. Ahmadinejad hosted Iran’s 
first day-long conference on Latin America and the con-
ference was attended by parliamentarians from Argen-
tina, Colombia, Venezuela, Cuba, Brazil, Uruguay, Italy, 
and the Russian Federation; 
Whereas at the Iranian conference on Latin America, Iran 
announced that it would reopen embassies in Chile, Co-
lombia, Ecuador, Nicaragua, and Uruguay and send a 
representative to Bolivia; 
Whereas routine civilian airline flights have been established 
from Tehran, Iran directly into Caracas, Venezuela, and 
the Government of Venezuela has been found to be indis-
criminate in the issuance of Venezuelan passports and 
other identifying documents that could help terrorists 
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and other criminal elements enter the United States with 
these documents; 
Whereas Mr. Ahmadinejad and Mr. Chavez have announced 
plans for a $2,000,000,000 shared fund to invest in 
projects in countries seeking to ‘‘liberate themselves from 
the U.S. imperialist yoke’’; 
Whereas Iran’s proxy terrorist group, Hizbollah, executed the 
deadliest terrorist attack against Americans abroad since 
World War II, the 1983 suicide bombing of a United 
States Marine barracks in Beirut, Lebanon, that killed 
241 American servicemen; 
Whereas Iran and Hizbollah were involved in the two dead-
liest terrorist attacks in Argentina: the March 1992 
bombing of the Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires, Argen-
tina and the July 1994 attack against the Argentine- 
Israeli Mutual Association (AMIA); 
Whereas the Government of Argentina is currently seeking 
legal action against the perpetrators of the 1994 AMIA 
terrorist attack, and INTERPOL has issued arrest war-
rants for several former Iranian officials and a Hizbollah 
leader in connection with the attack; 
Whereas the 2006 State Department’s Country Reports on 
Terrorism stated that Venezuela is ‘‘not fully cooper-
ating’’ with United States antiterrorism efforts; 
Whereas the relationship of the Government of Venezuela 
with its Jewish community is at its ‘‘worst in 40 years’’, 
according to Venezuela’s chief rabbi, with increasing in-
stances of graffiti on local synagogues, and more frequent 
anti-Semitic cartoons and statements in the media, none 
of which the Government of Venezuela denounced; 
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Whereas on October 23, 2006, the police in Caracas, Ven-
ezuela found two explosive devices near the United States 
Embassy, one of which was in a box that contained bro-
chures referencing Hizbollah; 
Whereas in October 2006, Teodoro Darnott, leader of an or-
ganization in Venezuela that calls itself ‘‘Hizbollah Latin 
America,’’ announced that 2007 would be the beginning 
of the ‘‘Jihad in America’’; 
Whereas according to a Naval War College report, Hizbollah 
raises an estimated $10,000,000 each year in the tri-bor-
der region of South America where Brazil, Paraguay, and 
Argentina meet; 
Whereas in 2004, the United States Southern Command, 
which is responsible for providing contingency planning, 
operations, and security cooperation for Central and 
South America, estimated that Islamist terrorist groups 
raise between $300,000,000 and $500,000,000 each year 
in the tri-border region, in northern Chile, in Maicao, Co-
lombia, on Margarita Island in Venezuela, in Panama’s 
Colon Free Trade Zone, and in other areas; 
Whereas in March 2007, Brazilian officials arrested 31 peo-
ple for illegally issuing passports over the past 14 years, 
and press reports indicate that some of these passports 
may have been provided to members of terrorist organiza-
tions, including members of Hizbollah; 
Whereas Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, and the United States 
have formed the 3+1 Group, which has focused on the 
financing of terrorism, drug and arms trafficking, and 
border security, as well as the exchange of information, 
with 
the 
purpose 
of 
preventing 
terrorism 
and 
transnational crimes; 
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Whereas in November 2006, Brazil established a new Re-
gional Intelligence Center in the tri-border region, dedi-
cated to coordinating intelligence activities of the police 
forces of Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay, and invited 
Argentina and Paraguay to send official representatives 
to the center; and 
Whereas in March 2007, the Organization of American 
States’ Inter-American Committee Against Terrorism 
(CICTE) reaffirmed, ‘‘terrorism in all its forms and 
manifestations, whatever its origin or motivation, has no 
justification whatsoever, affects the full enjoyment and 
exercise of human rights, and constitutes a grave threat 
to international peace and security, democratic institu-
tions, and the values enshrined in the OAS Charter, the 
Inter-American Democratic Charter, and other regional 
and international instruments’’: Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
(1) expresses concern over the emerging na-
tional security implications of the relationships be-
tween the leaders of Iran and regimes in the West-
ern Hemisphere like Venezuela; 
(2) expresses its continued support for the peo-
ple of Iran and Venezuela as they strive for freedom, 
respect for human rights and civil liberties, demo-
cratic self-governance, and the establishment of the 
rule of law; 
(3) supports the existing counterterrorism ef-
forts of Latin American countries, including the suc-
cessful counterterrorism efforts of the 3+1 Group 
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(consisting of Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, and the 
United States); 
(4) emphasizes the importance of eliminating 
Hizbollah’s financial network in the tri-border region 
of South America where Brazil, Paraguay, and Ar-
gentina meet and throughout the Western Hemi-
sphere; 
(5) calls on the United States government to 
work with governments in the Western Hemisphere 
to pursue an antiterrorism campaign based on co-
operation and constant vigilance; 
(6) urges the United States Government to 
work bilaterally and multilaterally with countries in 
the Western Hemisphere to create antiterrorism leg-
islation that would give governmental authorities 
new tools to take action against terrorist networks; 
and 
(7) recommends that the President of the 
United States create more mechanisms for joint 
counterterrorism operations and intraregional infor-
mation sharing among supportive countries in the 
Western Hemisphere, especially in light of Iran’s in-
creased involvement in the region. 
Æ 
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