110TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. CON. RES. 385 
CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 
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
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designated by the Department of State as a Foreign Ter-
rorist Organization; 
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-
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lice 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 
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, 
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 Rezai, 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;
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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 
has been issued, and Mohsen Rezai, 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 Rezai 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
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. . . To a certain degree, it reinforces them, because 
[suspect Alberto Jacinto] Kanoore Edul has many links 
with Islamist extremists’’; 
Whereas during the last two years, the Government of Argen-
tina has made significant advances in the AMIA inves-
tigation and other counter-terrorism efforts including the 
enactment, in July 2007, of counter-terrorism legislation 
which seeks to criminalize financing, fund-raising, and 
money laundering activities of groups linked to terrorism; 
Whereas the issuance of an Argentine arrest warrant for an 
attache´ of the Iranian Embassy in Argentina in connec-
tion with the AMIA case, indicates that Iran has used its 
embassies abroad as tools and extensions of radical 
Islamist goals and attacks; 
Whereas in recent years, Iran has greatly expanded its diplo-
matic, political, and economic presence in the Western 
Hemisphere, including the opening of nearly a dozen em-
bassies in Latin America; and 
Whereas according to news reports published in June 2008, 
intelligence agencies in the United States and Canada 
have warned of significant evidence that Hezbollah, with 
the support of the Government of Iran, plans to launch 
a major attack against ‘‘Jewish targets’’ outside the Mid-
dle East, and that possible targeted areas include Canada 
and Latin America: Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate 
concurring), That Congress— 
(1) reiterates its strongest condemnation of the 
1994 attack on the Argentine Jewish Mutual Asso-
ciation (AMIA) Jewish Community Center in Bue-
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nos Aires, Argentina, honors the victims of this at-
tack, and expresses its sympathy to the relatives of 
the victims; 
(2) applauds the Government of Argentina for 
increasing the pace of the AMIA bombing investiga-
tion and for enacting counter-terrorism legislation; 
(3) 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 prosecute those responsible; 
(4) commends the General Assembly of the 
International 
Criminal 
Police 
Organization 
(INTERPOL) for upholding and issuing the Red 
Notices supported by the Executive Committee of 
INTERPOL in March 2007; 
(5) expresses grave concern regarding the Gov-
ernment of Saudi Arabia’s failure, when given the 
opportunity, to detain Iranian officials against whom 
Argentine arrest warrants or INTERPOL Red No-
tices are pending in connection with the AMIA case; 
(6) urges all nations to cooperate fully with the 
AMIA investigation, including by making informa-
tion, witnesses, and suspects available for review and 
questioning by the appropriate Argentine authori-
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ties, and by detaining and extraditing to Argentina, 
if given the opportunity, any persons against whom 
Argentine arrest warrants or INTERPOL Red No-
tices are pending in connection with the AMIA case, 
including Iranian officials and former officials, 
Hezbollah operatives, and Islamist militants; 
(7) encourages the President to direct United 
States law enforcement agencies to provide support 
and cooperation to the Government of Argentina, if 
requested, for the purposes of deepening and ex-
panding the investigation into the AMIA bombing; 
and 
(8) urges governments in the Western Hemi-
sphere, who have not done so already, to draft, 
adopt, 
and 
implement 
legislation 
designating 
Hezbollah as a terrorist organization, banning fund-
raising and recruitment activities, and applying the 
harshest penalties on those providing support for ac-
tivities involving Hezbollah and other such Islamist 
terrorist organizations. 
Passed the House of Representatives July 15, 2008. 
Attest: 
Clerk.
110TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. CON. RES. 385 
CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 
Condemning the attack on the AMIA Jewish Com-
munity Center in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 
July 1994, and for other purposes.