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Whereas Iran’s presence in Latin America through its proxy 
Hezbollah presents incalculable risk to the security of the 
United States because Hezbollah is the most effective, 
well-structured, and militarily proficient terrorist group 
in existence with a host of skills and abilities to support 
their objectives; 
Whereas Hezbollah’s 1980 fatwa explained its rationale for 
engaging in drug production and trafficking: It explicitly 
stated that it was ‘‘making these drugs for Satan— 
America and the Jews. If we cannot kill them with guns 
we will kill them with drugs.’’; 
Whereas in 2009, Dutch authorities on the Caribbean island 
of Curacao arrested 17 suspects on drug-trafficking 
charges; 
Whereas the authorities accused the suspects of funneling 
part of their profits directly to Hezbollah through infor-
mal banking mechanisms like the Hawala system; 
Whereas there is an established connection between Iran and 
Mexican drug cartels: In 2008, El Universal reported 
that the Mexican Sinaloa drug cartel was sending elite 
assassins to train on weapons and explosives with Islamic 
radicals in Iran; 
Whereas Hezbollah has demonstrated its ability to cooperate 
with Mexican drug cartels to utilize smuggling techniques 
and routes in order to bring drugs and people into the 
United States; 
Whereas sophisticated narco-tunneling resembling the types 
used by Hezbollah in Lebanon have been found along the 
United States-Mexican border, and arrested Mexican 
gang members entering the United States with Farsi tat-
toos also support a Hezbollah influence; 
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Whereas in 2008, Salim Boughader Mucharrafille was sen-
tenced to 60 years in prison after being arrested in 2002 
by Mexican authorities on charges of organized crime and 
immigrant smuggling; 
Whereas Salim Boughader Mucharrafille was a Mexican of 
Lebanese descent who reportedly smuggled 200 people, 
including Hezbollah supporters into the United States; 
Whereas in 2005, a Lebanese man named Mahmoud Youssef 
Kourani pled guilty to providing material support to 
Hezbollah after crossing the Mexican border illegally into 
the United States and driving his car all the way to 
Dearborn, Michigan; 
Whereas since the fall of 2008, at least 111 suspects of a 
Hezbollah-linked international network of drug traffickers 
and money launderers have been arrested in Drug En-
forcement Administration operations; 
Whereas the Administration’s 2011 Strategy for Counterter-
rorism did not include the Western Hemisphere in its 
‘‘Area of Focus’’; and 
Whereas in October 2011, the Federal Bureau of Investiga-
tion and the Drug Enforcement Administration disrupted 
a plot involving Iranian-American, Manssor Arbabsiar, 
the IRGC, and a member of the Zetas Mexican drug car-
tel to assassinate the Saudi Arabian ambassador to the 
United States with a bomb and subsequent bomb attacks 
on the Saudi and Israeli embassies in Washington, DC 
and in Buenos Aires: Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved, That— 
(1) it is the sense of the House of Representa-
tives that there exists significant cause for concern 
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and further investigation of potential counterter-
rorism threats from Iran’s growing presence and in-
fluence in the Western Hemisphere; 
(2) in order to effectively assess the risk to the 
United 
States 
homeland, 
the 
Administration 
should— 
(A) include the Western Hemisphere in the 
Administration’s 2012 National Strategy for 
Counterterrorism’s ‘‘Area of Focus’’ with spe-
cific attention on the counterterrorism threat to 
the homeland emanating from Iran’s growing 
presence and activity in the Western Hemi-
sphere; and 
(B) utilize an existing counterterrorism 
taskforce to be led by the Department of Home-
land Security and ensure that representatives of 
the Department of Homeland Security, the De-
partment of State, the Federal Bureau of In-
vestigation, the Drug Enforcement Administra-
tion, the Central Intelligence Agency, the Na-
tional Counterterrorism Center, and the appro-
priate intelligence agencies are members of the 
taskforce; and 
(3) the taskforce referred to in paragraph 
(2)(B)— 
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(A) should examine— 
(i) the presence and activities of Iran, 
the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard 
Corps (IRGC), the IRGC’s Qods Force, 
and Hezbollah in the Western Hemisphere, 
including within the United States; 
(ii) the relationship of Iran, the 
IRGC, the IRGC’s Qods Force, and 
Hezbollah with the governments in the 
Western Hemisphere; 
(iii) the relationship of Iran, the 
IRGC, the IRGC’s Qods Force, and 
Hezbollah with drug trafficking organiza-
tions; and 
(iv) the fundraising efforts of Iran, 
the IRGC, the IRGC’s Qods Force, and 
Hezbollah in the Lebanese Diaspora in 
Latin America; and 
(B) should submit to Congress not later 
than 120 days after the date of the adoption of 
this resolution a report that contains a com-
prehensive 
counterterrorism 
and 
counter- 
radicalization strategy to defend United States 
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geostrategic interests and defeat Iranian inter-
ests in the Western Hemisphere. 
Æ 
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