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nian investment in Bolivia of up to $1,000,000,000 over 
five years; 
Whereas Mr. Ahmadinejad and Mr. Chavez have announced 
plans for a $2,000,000,000 shared fund to invest in 
projects in countries that Mr. Chavez characterized as 
seeking to ‘‘liberate themselves from the U.S. imperialist 
yoke’’; 
Whereas in July 2007, the Venezuelan energy minister an-
nounced plans to sell gasoline to Iran following riots in 
Iran opposing the Iranian Government’s policy of gas ra-
tioning; 
Whereas in March, 2007 routine civilian airline flights were 
established from Tehran, Iran directly to Caracas, Ven-
ezuela; 
Whereas the 2006 State Department’s Country Reports on 
Terrorism stated that Venezuela is not ‘‘fully cooper-
ating’’ with United States antiterrorism efforts; 
Whereas according to the State Department, ‘‘an individual 
claiming to be a member of an Islamic extremist group 
in Venezuela placed two pipe bombs outside the American 
Embassy in Caracas on October 23, 2006. Venezuelan 
police safely disposed of the two pipe bombs and imme-
diately made one arrest. The investigation by Venezuelan 
authorities resulted in the additional arrest of the alleged 
ideological leader of the group. At year’s end, both sus-
pects remained in jail and prosecutors were pressing ter-
rorism charges against them’’; 
Whereas Hizbollah, Iran’s proxy terrorist group, executed the 
deadliest terrorist attack against Americans abroad since 
World War II, the 1983 suicide bombing of a United
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States Marine barracks in Beirut, Lebanon, that killed 
241 American servicemen; 
Whereas Iran and Hizbollah were involved in the two dead-
liest terrorist attacks in Argentina: the March 1992 
bombing of the Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires, Argen-
tina, which killed 29 people and the July 1994 attack 
against the Argentine-Israeli Mutual Association (AMIA), 
which killed 85 people; 
Whereas the Government of Argentina is currently seeking 
legal action against the perpetrators of the 1994 AMIA 
terrorist attack; 
Whereas in September 2007, the President of Argentina said 
to the United Nations General Assembly, ‘‘I want to 
stress here, in the United Nations headquarters, that un-
fortunately until now, the Islamic Republic of Iran has 
not collaborated with the Argentine justice system to 
clarify what occurred’’; 
Whereas according to a 2003 report by the Library of Con-
gress, money laundered in the tri-border region, the area 
where Argentina, Paraguay and Brazil meet, ‘‘probably 
are in the billions of dollars per year’’ and ‘‘Hizbollah has 
reaped hundreds of millions of dollars in profits from 
narcotics and arms trafficking, product piracy, and other 
illicit activities in the tri-border area’’; 
Whereas the television station Telemundo interviewed resi-
dents of the tri-border region who said that ‘‘they’re only 
waiting for an order to put bombs on their body and at-
tack the United States’’; 
Whereas in March 2007, Brazilian officials arrested 31 peo-
ple for illegally issuing passports over the past 14 years, 
and press reports indicate that some of these passports
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may have been provided to members of terrorist organiza-
tions, including members of Hizbollah; 
Whereas Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, and the United States 
have formed the 3+1 Group, which has focused on the 
financing of terrorism, drug and arms trafficking, and 
border security, as well as the exchange of information, 
with 
the 
purpose 
of 
preventing 
terrorism 
and 
transnational crimes in the tri-border region; 
Whereas in November 2006, Brazil established a new Re-
gional Intelligence Center in the tri-border region, dedi-
cated to coordinating intelligence activities of the police 
forces of Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay, and invited 
Argentina and Paraguay to send official representatives 
to the Center; 
Whereas in March 2007, the Organization of American 
States’ Inter-American Committee Against Terrorism 
(CICTE) reaffirmed that ‘‘terrorism in all its forms and 
manifestations, whatever its origin or motivation, has no 
justification whatsoever, affects the full enjoyment and 
exercise of human rights, and constitutes a grave threat 
to international peace and security, democratic institu-
tions, and the values enshrined in the OAS Charter, the 
Inter-American Democratic Charter, and other regional 
and international instruments’’; 
Whereas in July 2007, the Government of Argentina enacted 
anti-terrorism legislation that put in place harsher pen-
alties for cooperating with terrorists; and 
Whereas as of March 2007, the Government of Brazil was 
considering expanded anti-terrorism legislation: Now, 
therefore, be it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives—
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(1) expresses concern over the emerging national se-
curity implications of the Iranian regime’s efforts to ex-
pand its influence in Latin America; 
(2) supports the existing counterterrorism efforts of 
Latin American countries, including the successful 
counterterrorism efforts of the 3+1 Group (consisting of 
Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, and the United States); 
(3) emphasizes the importance of eliminating 
Hizbollah’s financial network in the tri-border region of 
South America where Brazil, Paraguay, and Argentina 
meet and throughout the Western Hemisphere; 
(4) commends and supports the efforts of individual 
countries and regional bodies in the Western Hemi-
sphere that have led efforts to eliminate terrorist financ-
ing and other terrorist operations; 
(5) calls on the United States Government to work 
with governments in the Western Hemisphere to pursue 
an antiterrorism campaign based on cooperation and 
constant vigilance; 
(6) urges the United States Government to work bi-
laterally and multilaterally with countries in the Western 
Hemisphere to help them create antiterrorism legislation 
that would give governmental authorities new tools to 
take action against terrorist networks; and
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(7) recommends that the President of the United 
States 
create 
more 
mechanisms 
for 
joint 
counterterrorism operations and intraregional informa-
tion sharing among supportive countries in the Western 
Hemisphere, especially in light of Iran’s increased in-
volvement in the region. 
Attest: 
Clerk.