Thousands of men in Balochistan, the southwestern province of Pakistan, smuggle oil from across the restive border with Iran. While the phenomenon is not new, the Pakistan government has recently ordered the stopping of the illegal trade as fears mount about billions of rupees of loss to the economy. The smuggling of Iranian oil into Pakistan is decades old and American economic sanctions on Iran, as well as the falling prices of the Iranian oil, have propelled the creation of organized smuggling of oil, according to “Iran’s Fuel Smuggling Paranoia in the Baluchistan Border Region” published by the Jamestown Foundation’s Terrorism Monitor. “In a region so economically deprived on both sides of the border, the opportunities for earning a living are often limited to either trafficking drugs or smuggling fuel,” said the writer of the report, Fatemeh Aman. “Fuel carriers lack any other income besides carrying gasoline and diesel fuel from …