111TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. CON. RES. 156 
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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AMIA bombing and urged the International Criminal Po-
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 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;
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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 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, 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
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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; 
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
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embassies abroad as tools and extensions of radical 
Islamist goals and attacks; 
Whereas, on January 27, 2009, Secretary of Defense Robert 
Gates said, ‘‘I’m concerned about the level of * * * sub-
versive activity that the Iranians are carrying on in a 
number of places in Latin America * * * They’re opening 
a lot of offices and a lot of fronts, behind which they 
interfere in what is going on in some of these countries.’’; 
and 
Whereas, on March 17, 2009, Navy Admiral James Stavridis, 
Commander, United States Southern Command, indi-
cated that he shared Secretary Gates’s concern, explain-
ing ‘‘We have seen * * * an increase in a wide level of 
activity by the Iranian government in this region * * * 
That is a concern principally because of the connections 
between the government of Iran, which is a state sponsor 
of terrorism, and Hezbollah’’: 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-
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 
its ongoing efforts in the AMIA bombing investiga-
tion;
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(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) 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; 
(5) urges all responsible nations to cooperate 
fully with the AMIA investigation, including by mak-
ing information, witnesses, and suspects available 
for review and questioning by the appropriate Ar-
gentine authorities, and by detaining and extraditing 
to Argentina, if given the opportunity, any persons 
against 
whom 
Argentine 
arrest 
warrants 
or 
INTERPOL Red Notices are pending in connection 
with the AMIA case, including Iranian officials and 
former officials, Hezbollah operatives, and Islamist 
militants; 
(6) 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-
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panding the investigation into the AMIA bombing; 
and 
(7) 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 extremist 
groups. 
Passed the House of Representatives July 17, 2009. 
Attest: 
Clerk.
111TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. CON. RES. 156 
CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 
Condemning the attack on the AMIA Jewish Com-
munity Center in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 
July 1994, and for other purposes.