IV 
110TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. CON. RES. 188 
Condemning the attack on the AMIA Jewish Community Center in Buenos 
Aires, Argentina, in July 1994, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JULY 18, 2007 
Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN (for herself and Mr. LANTOS) submitted the following 
concurrent resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs 
CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 
Condemning the attack on the AMIA Jewish Community 
Center in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in July 1994, and 
for other purposes. 
Whereas on July 18, 1994, 85 innocent people were killed 
and 300 were wounded when the Argentine Jewish Mu-
tual Association (AMIA) was bombed in Buenos Aires, 
Argentina; 
Whereas extensive evidence links the planning of the attacks 
to the Government of Iran, and the execution of the at-
tacks to the terrorist group Hezbollah, which is based in 
Lebanon, supported by Syria, and sponsored by Iran; 
Whereas on October 25, 2006, the State Prosecutor of Ar-
gentina, an office created by the current Government of 
Argentina, concluded that the AMIA bombing was ‘‘de-
cided and organized by the highest leaders of the former 
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government of . . . Iran, whom, at the same time, en-
trusted its execution to the Lebanese terrorist group 
Hezbollah’’; 
Whereas on October 25, 2006, the State Prosecutor of Ar-
gentina concluded that the AMIA bombing had been ap-
proved in advance by Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali 
Khamene’i, Iran’s then-leader Ali Akbar Hashemi 
Rafsanjani, Iran’s then-Foreign Minister Ali Akbar 
Velayati, and Iran’s then-Minister of Security and Intel-
ligence Ali Fallahijan; 
Whereas on October 25, 2006, the State Prosecutor of Ar-
gentina stated that the Government of Iran uses ‘‘ter-
rorism as a mechanism of its foreign policy’’ in support 
of ‘‘its final aim [which] is to export its radicalized vision 
of Islam and to eliminate the enemies of the regime’’; 
Whereas on October 25, 2006, the State Prosecutor of Ar-
gentina identified Ibrahim Hussein Berro, a Lebanese 
citizen and member of Hezbollah, as the suicide bomber 
who primarily carried out the attack on the AMIA; 
Whereas on November 9, 2006, Argentine Judge Rodolfo 
Canicoba Corral, pursuant to the request of the State 
Prosecutor of Argentina, issued an arrest warrant for Ali 
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, a former leader of Iran and 
the current chairman of Iran’s Expediency Council, for 
his involvement in the AMIA bombing and urged the 
International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL) 
to issue an international arrest warrant for Rafsanjani 
and detain him; 
Whereas on November 9, 2006, Argentine Judge Rodolfo 
Canicoba Corral, pursuant to the request of the State 
Prosecutor of Argentina, also issued arrest warrants for 
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Ali Fallahijan, a former Iranian Minister of Security and 
Intelligence, Ali Akbar Velayati, a former Iranian For-
eign Minister, Mohsen Rezai, a former commander of 
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), 
Ahmad Vahidi, a former commander of the elite Al-Quds 
Force of the IRGC, Hadi Soleimanpour, a former Iranian 
ambassador to Argentina, Mohsen Rabbani, a former cul-
tural attache at the Iranian Embassy in Buenos Aires, 
Ahmed Reza Asghari, a former official at the Iranian 
Embassy in Buenos Aires, and Imad Moughnieh, a lead-
ing operations chief of Hezbollah; 
Whereas on March 5, 2007, the Executive Committee of 
INTERPOL supported the issuance of arrest warrants, 
also known as capture notices for Hezbollah operative 
Imad Moughnieh and five Iranian officials noted above 
for whom Argentine Judge Rodolfo Canicoba Corral 
issued arrest warrants; 
Whereas Iran has appealed the INTERPOL Executive Com-
mittee’s 
decision, 
and 
the 
General 
Assembly 
of 
INTERPOL will issue a final ruling on the arrest war-
rants when it meets in Morocco in November 2007; 
Whereas the inability to reach suspected Islamist militants 
and Iranian officials has debilitated the efforts of the 
Government of Argentina to prosecute masterminds and 
planners of the 1994 AMIA bombing; 
Whereas the current Government of Argentina has made sig-
nificant advances in the AMIA investigation; and 
Whereas Argentina recently approved anti-terrorist legislation 
which seeks to criminalize financing, fund-raising, and 
money laundering activities of groups linked to terrorism: 
Now, therefore, be it 
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Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate 
concurring), That Congress— 
(1) reiterates its strongest condemnation of the 
1994 attack on the AMIA Jewish Community Cen-
ter in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and honors the vic-
tims of this heinous act; 
(2) expresses its sympathy to the relatives of 
the victims, who have waited 13 years without jus-
tice for the loss of their loved ones, and may have 
to wait even longer for justice to be served; 
(3) applauds the current Government of Argen-
tina for increasing the pace of the AMIA bombing 
investigation, as well as on its recently approved 
anti-terrorism legislation; 
(4) urges the Government of Argentina to con-
tinue to dedicate and provide the resources nec-
essary for its judicial system and intelligence agen-
cies to investigate all areas of the AMIA case and 
to bring those responsible to justice; 
(5) calls upon the General Assembly of 
INTERPOL to uphold, issue and implement the 
international arrest warrants supported by the Exec-
utive Committee of INTERPOL in March 2007; and 
(6) calls upon responsible nations to cooperate 
fully with the investigation, including by making in-
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formation, witnesses, and suspects available for re-
view and questioning by the appropriate Argentine 
authorities, and by detaining and extraditing to Ar-
gentina, if given the opportunity, any of the Iranian 
officials and former officials, Hezbollah operatives, 
and Islamist militants against whom Argentine or 
international arrest warrants are pending in connec-
tion with the AMIA case. 
Æ 
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