Tehran Outfit

The Tehran Outfit is an Italian/Australian crime syndicate based in Sydney, Australia. It is part of the Calabrian Mafia. The Outfit rose to power in the 1970s under the control of Thomas Morello during a period when marijuana growing and hashish distribution was at a peak in Australia.

History
Formed in 1973 as part of the Modafferi 'ndrina, the Tehran Outfit is a relatively new operation in terms of the Calabrian mafia's branches in Australia and is unique in terms that it focuses only on hashish importation from the middle east rather then other criminal activities of the mafia.

Bruno Modafferi ordered Morello to take charge of the outfit to protect the clan in the event that a risky international drug importation operation was to go belly up. In such an event Morello would be sacraficed to the law along with all other assoicates under his control while the clan would claim zero involvement.

Outfit associates
The Tehran Outfit is notable for having non-Italians as high ranking associates. The most important is Col Meadows who runs the Outfit's street distribution. Meadows is the first non-Italian to become so close to the inner circle of the Calabrian mafia. Another unlikely associate of the Outfit is Morello ex-wife Margaret Mills. As an air hostess for Air Australia, Margaret forms a string of willing mules to smuggle hashish into Australia.