Remnants of a boat sit on the dry bed of Lake Urmia in northwestern Iran on December 19, 2025. Lake Urmia, once the largest lake in the Middle East, has dramatically shrunk due to prolonged drought, the damming of rivers feeding the lake, and extensive groundwater extraction in the surrounding area. Although increased rainfall and water diversion briefly helped restore water levels in 2019, renewed drought and administrative mismanagement in the early 2020s reversed the trend, and satellite imagery shows the lake has almost entirely dried up by September 2025. (Photo by Morteza Aminoroayayi / Middle East Images / AFP via Getty Images)
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Jailed, pardoned, then jailed again: Friend of Iranian conservationists reacts to their 'terrifying' arrest

Bianna Golodryga speaks to former prisoner Morad Tahbaz about the rearrest of two fellow Iranian environmentalists, Houman Jokar and Sepideh Kashani, and the state of civil society inside Iran.

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Remnants of a boat sit on the dry bed of Lake Urmia in northwestern Iran on December 19, 2025. Lake Urmia, once the largest lake in the Middle East, has dramatically shrunk due to prolonged drought, the damming of rivers feeding the lake, and extensive groundwater extraction in the surrounding area. Although increased rainfall and water diversion briefly helped restore water levels in 2019, renewed drought and administrative mismanagement in the early 2020s reversed the trend, and satellite imagery shows the lake has almost entirely dried up by September 2025. (Photo by Morteza Aminoroayayi / Middle East Images / AFP via Getty Images)
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