IV 
118TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. RES. 1266 
Condemning the attack on the Argentine Jewish Mutual Association Jewish 
Community Center in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in July 1994 and encour-
aging accountability for the attack. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MAY 31, 2024 
Ms. WASSERMAN SCHULTZ (for herself, Mr. DIAZ-BALART, Mr. ESPAILLAT, 
and Mr. TONY GONZALES of Texas) submitted the following resolution; 
which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs 
RESOLUTION 
Condemning the attack on the Argentine Jewish Mutual As-
sociation Jewish Community Center in Buenos Aires, 
Argentina, in July 1994 and encouraging accountability 
for the attack. 
Whereas, 30 years ago, on July 18, 1994, 85 innocent people 
were killed and 300 were injured when the Argentine 
Jewish Mutual Association (hereinafter referred to as 
‘‘AMIA’’) was bombed in Buenos Aires, Argentina; 
Whereas the AMIA bombing was the deadliest attack on Jew-
ish people outside Israel since the Holocaust; 
Whereas it is reported that considerable evidence links the at-
tack to the terrorist group Hezbollah, which is based in 
Lebanon, supported by the Government of the Syrian 
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•HRES 1266 IH 
Arab Republic, and sponsored by Iran, a United States- 
designated state sponsor of terrorism since 1984; 
Whereas, 2 years earlier, Hezbollah operatives also blew up 
the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires, killing 29 civilians 
and injuring 242; 
Whereas the 30 years since the bombing have been marred 
by a failure to bring those responsible, including Iran- 
backed operatives and their Hezbollah proxies, to justice; 
Whereas, in September 2004, 10 years after the attack, 
Alberto Nisman was appointed as the Special Prosecutor 
in charge of the 1994 AMIA bombing investigation; 
Whereas, in October 2006, Argentine prosecutors Alberto 
Nisman and Marcelo Martinez Burgos formally accused 
the Iranian regime of directing the bombing, and the 
Hezbollah militia of carrying it out; 
Whereas Ibrahim Hussein Berro, a member of the terrorist 
group Hezbollah, was identified as the AMIA bomber; 
Whereas, in November 2006, an Argentine judge issued ar-
rest warrants for 8 Iranian nationals, including high- 
ranking government and military officials, and one Leba-
nese national, who were named as suspects in the AMIA 
bombing; 
Whereas, in November 2007, INTERPOL voted to put the 
following suspects in the 1994 AMIA attack on its most 
wanted list: Ali Fallahijan, Mohsen Rabbani, Ahmad 
Reza Asghari, Ahmad Vahidi, and Mohsen Razaee from 
Iran and Imad Fayez Moughnieh from Lebanon; 
Whereas INTERPOL currently has 5 red alerts in place in 
relation to the AMIA attack; 
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Whereas the investigation of the AMIA bombing has been 
marked by judicial misconduct and undue influence; 
Whereas no Iranian suspects for the AMIA bombing have 
faced prosecution; 
Whereas former Federal judge Juan Jose Galeano and 
former State Intelligence Secretariat intelligence head 
Hugo Anzorreguy have both been convicted and sen-
tenced to prison for subverting the investigation and con-
cealing evidence; 
Whereas, in 2019, the Argentine Government declared 
Hezbollah a terrorist organization, expelled all members 
of the organization from the country, and froze their as-
sets in Argentina; 
Whereas, in 2020, Argentine President Alberto Fernandez re-
affirmed the commitment of the Argentine Republic to 
bring those responsible for the attack to justice; 
Whereas, in 2021, Ahmad Vahidi and Mohsen Rezai, 2 Ira-
nian suspects from the 1994 bombing, were appointed by 
Iran’s Ebrahim Raisi, and confirmed by the Islamic Con-
sultative Assembly, to the Iranian Cabinet; 
Whereas, on April 12, 2024, Argentina’s highest criminal 
court, the Argentine Court of Cassation, broke the ex-
tended silence of the justice system by affirming Iran’s 
responsibility for the deadly bombing and declaring it a 
‘‘crime against humanity’’; 
Whereas, according to news reports of the ruling, the court 
identified ‘‘top Iranian officials and paramilitary Revolu-
tionary Guard commanders in its determination that Iran 
carried out the bombings in response to Argentina scrap-
ping three contracts that would have provided Tehran 
with nuclear technology in the mid-1980s’’; 
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•HRES 1266 IH 
Whereas Argentine President Javier Milei commended the 
high court’s ruling, noting that the determination was a 
‘‘significant step’’ that put an end to decades of ‘‘delays 
and cover-ups’’; 
Whereas leaders in the Argentine Jewish community, includ-
ing AMIA President Amos Linetzky, noted that the his-
toric ruling would finally provide an opportunity for sur-
vivors and relatives of victims to seek legal action against 
Iran; 
Whereas the Foreign Ministry of Argentina responded to the 
court’s ruling by requesting that INTERPOL issue an 
immediate international arrest notice for Ahmad Vahidi, 
who is now the Iranian Interior Minister, ‘‘as one of 
those responsible for the attack on AMIA’’; and 
Whereas, today, Argentina is home to over 250,000 Jewish 
people, making it the largest home to Jews in Latin 
America and the sixth-largest in the world: Now, there-
fore, be it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
(1) condemns the 1994 attack on the Argentine 
Jewish Mutual Association Jewish Community Cen-
ter in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and honors the vic-
tims of this heinous act; 
(2) expresses sympathy to the relatives of the 
victims, who have waited for 3 decades without jus-
tice for the loss of their loved ones, and may have 
to wait even longer for justice to be served; 
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(3) underscores the concern of the United 
States regarding the continuing, 30-year-long delay 
in the proper resolution of this case; 
(4) calls for the perpetrators of this horrific act, 
including Iranian and Hezbollah operatives, to be 
held accountable for their crimes; 
(5) demands that INTERPOL member coun-
tries comply with arrest orders for individuals re-
sponsible for the deadly attack on the AMIA Jewish 
Community Center; and 
(6) stands in solidarity with the Jewish commu-
nity of Argentina and the broader Latin American 
and Caribbean Jewish diaspora at a time of surging 
antisemitism around the world. 
Æ 
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