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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 according to news reports published in June of 
2008, intelligence agencies in the United States and Can-
ada 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 Middle East, and that possible targeted areas include 
Canada and Latin America; 
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 ac-
tivity by the Iranian government in this region . . . That 
is a concern principally because of the connections be-
tween 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-
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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; 
(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 
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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-
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. 
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