Abbas William Samii is an analyst and writer specializing in Middle Eastern and South Asian affairs. He contributed articles to The Weekly Standard in 2007 covering topics including Iranian domestic policy and Pakistani politics.
The continuing political crisis in Pakistan--triggered in March by President Pervez Musharraf's suspension of the country's top judge for alleged corruption, and heightened by the subsequent violence in Karachi that took 40 lives--creates uncertainty about the country's leadership. We should be…
IRANIANS are among the world's biggest consumers of gasoline because the product is kept at an artificially low price through government subsidies. The Iranian cabinet decided in mid-January that it would try to reduce consumption by introducing gasoline rationing, and reports from the provinces…