Imagine the Proud Boys as morality police in a Trump 2.0 admin surveilling pregnant women, or the Oathkeepers patrolling the border. Criminal gangs are a degree removed from paramilitary militias when an authoritarian regime is in charge. It can happen here www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/0...

Iran turns to Hells Angels and other criminal gangs to target critics

Iran has cultivated ties with criminal networks in the West to carry out a recent wave of violent plots in the United States and Europe.