IV 
111TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. CON. RES. 156 
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 
JUNE 17, 2009 
Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN (for herself, Mr. SHERMAN, Mr. BURTON of Indiana, Mr. 
INGLIS, Mr. MCCAUL, Mr. POE of Texas, Mr. MANZULLO, Mr. MACK, 
Mr. BILIRAKIS, Mr. WILSON of South Carolina, Mr. KLEIN of Florida, 
Ms. BERKLEY, Ms. HARMAN, Mrs. MALONEY, Mr. ROTHMAN of New Jer-
sey, Mr. WEXLER, Mr. MCGOVERN, and Mr. ENGEL) submitted the fol-
lowing 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 people were killed and 300 
were wounded when the Argentine Jewish Mutual Asso-
ciation (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 Hezbollah, which is based in Lebanon, supported 
by Syria, sponsored by Iran, and designated by the De-
partment of State as a Foreign Terrorist Organization; 
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Whereas, on October 25, 2006, the State Prosecutor of Ar-
gentina, an office created by the Government of Argen-
tina, concluded that the AMIA bombing was ‘‘decided 
and organized by the highest leaders of the former gov-
ernment of . . . Iran, whom, at the same time, entrusted 
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 Assembly of Experts and 
of Iran’s Expediency Council, for his involvement in the 
AMIA bombing and urged the International Criminal Po-
lice Organization (INTERPOL) to issue an international 
arrest warrant for Rafsanjani and detain him; 
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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 
Ali Fallahijan, a former Iranian Minister of Security and 
Intelligence, Ali Akbar Velayati, a former Iranian For-
eign Minister, Mohsen Rezaei, 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, 
Ahmad 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 unanimously supported the issuance of Red 
Notices for Hezbollah operative Imad Moughnieh and for 
Iranian officials Ali Fallahijan, Mohsen Rezaei, Ahmad 
Vahidi, Mohsen Rabbani, and Ahmad Reza Asgari, there-
by allowing arrest warrants for those individuals to be 
circulated worldwide with an eye to their arrest and ex-
tradition; 
Whereas, on November 7, 2007, the General Assembly of 
INTERPOL upheld the Executive Committee’s decision 
to support the issuance of six Red Notices in connection 
to the AMIA case; 
Whereas, on February 12, 2008, Hezbollah operative Imad 
Moughnieh reportedly was killed in Syria; 
Whereas in June of 2008, the Government of Saudi Arabia 
hosted an international Muslim conference that was re-
portedly attended by Iranian officials Ali Akbar Hashemi 
Rafsanjani, against whom an Argentine arrest warrant 
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has been issued, and Mohsen Rezaei, against whom both 
an Argentine arrest warrant and INTERPOL Red Notice 
have been issued; 
Whereas the Government of Saudi Arabia reportedly made no 
attempt to detain or arrest Ali Akbar Hashemi 
Rafsanjani or Mohsen Rezaei during their time in Saudi 
Arabia, and the two departed Saudi Arabia without inci-
dent; 
Whereas, on May 22, 2008, Argentine prosecutor Alberto 
Nisman filed a request with Argentine Judge Ariel Lijo 
for the arrest of Carlos Saul Menem, who was president 
of Argentina at the time of the AMIA bombing, and four 
other former Argentine high officials in connection with 
the AMIA case; 
Whereas Mr. Nisman claimed in his request for an arrest 
warrant that Menem and the other four officials had at-
tempted to cover up the involvement of a Syrian-Argen-
tine businessman, Alberto Jacinto Kanoore Edul, in the 
AMIA bombing; 
Whereas Argentine investigators have stated that prior to the 
AMIA bombing, Mr. Kanoore Edul was in contact with 
at least two men who have been identified as suspects in 
the AMIA case; 
Whereas Mr. Nisman stated in an article published on May 
29, 2008, that his request for arrest warrants against 
Argentine nationals in the AMIA case ‘‘does absolutely 
not change the accusations against Hezbollah and Iran 
. . . To a certain degree, it reinforces them, because 
[suspect Alberto Jacinto] Kanoore Edul has many links 
with Islamist extremists’’; 
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Whereas, on December 16, 2008, at the AMIA Special Pros-
ecutor’s request, the presiding Argentine judge in a civil 
suit against the Iranian suspects and Hezbollah ordered 
the attachment of six commercial properties in Argentina 
allegedly owned by former Iran cultural attache´ and 
named suspect Mohsen Rabbani; 
Whereas in December of 2008, the judge also requested that 
select European governments freeze up to $1 million in 
bank accounts allegedly belonging to former Iranian lead-
er Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and another Iranian 
accused of involvement in the attacks; 
Whereas between October of 2008 and March of 2009, nearly 
a dozen Iranian properties have reportedly been seized in 
the Buenos Aires area in connection with a civil suit pre-
sented by an unnamed survivor of the AMIA bombing; 
Whereas in May of 2009, former IRGC commander Mohsen 
Rezaei, against whom both an Argentine arrest warrant 
and an INTERPOL Red Notice have been issued, an-
nounced his intention to seek the leadership of Iran; 
Whereas in May 2009, Argentina issued an international ar-
rest warrant for Samuel Salman El Reda, a Colombian 
citizen of Lebanese descent who Argentine prosecutor 
Alberto Nisman believes was the top local connection in 
the AMIA attack; 
Whereas Mr. Nisman believes El Reda had connections to 
Hezbollah and the Tri-Border area, a zone between Ar-
gentina, Paraguay, and Brazil suspected of being a haven 
for Islamic radical groups; 
Whereas during the past several years, the Government of 
Argentina has made significant advances in the AMIA in-
vestigation and other counter-terrorism efforts; 
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