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The industrial port in the southern Italian region of Puglia is also home to the massive Ilva steel plant, which has risked closure in part because of its damage to the environment and public health. But Taranto lives up to its nickname of the city of contradictions.
Iran’s clerical regime has worked hard over 40 years to set Iranians against each other on multiple bases, and must now watch a nation united in opposition to itself and breaking its red lines, notably those set around gender, faith and even ethnicity.