IV 
111TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. CON. RES. 295 
Condemning the attack on the AMIA Jewish Community Center in Buenos 
Aires, Argentina, on July 18, 1994, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JULY 1, 2010 
Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN (for herself, Ms. WASSERMAN SCHULTZ, Mrs. MALONEY, 
Mr. KLEIN of Florida, Mr. SHERMAN, Mr. SMITH of New Jersey, Mr. 
INGLIS, Mr. MARIO DIAZ-BALART of Florida, Mr. MCMAHON, Mr. 
PENCE, Mr. BURTON of Indiana, Mr. ENGEL, Mr. ACKERMAN, Mr. 
ROYCE, Mr. POE of Texas, Mr. DEUTCH, Mr. LAMBORN, Mr. MCGOV-
ERN, Ms. BERKLEY, Mr. WILSON of South Carolina, Mr. MANZULLO, Mr. 
MACK, Mr. MEEK of Florida, Mr. SIRES, Mr. TOWNS, Mr. MCCOTTER, 
Mr. BILIRAKIS, and Mr. ROHRABACHER) submitted the following concur-
rent 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, on July 18, 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 attacked in Buenos Aires, Argentina; 
Whereas extensive evidence links the planning of the attack 
to the Government of Iran, and the execution of the at-
tack to Hezbollah, which is based in Lebanon, supported 
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by Syria, sponsored by Iran, and designated by the De-
partment of State as a Foreign Terrorist 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 attack was ‘‘decided and 
organized by the highest leaders of the former govern-
ment 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 attack 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 attack; 
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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 in December 2008, at the AMIA Special Prosecu-
tor’s request, the presiding Argentine judge in a civil suit 
against the Iranian suspects and Hezbollah requested 
that select European governments freeze up to $1 million 
in bank accounts allegedly belonging to former Iranian 
leader Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and another Ira-
nian accused of involvement in the attacks; 
Whereas between October of 2008 and March of 2009, nearly 
a dozen Iranian properties were reportedly seized in the 
Buenos Aires area in connection with a civil suit pre-
sented by an unnamed survivor of the AMIA attack; 
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