Iran's Reformists Enter the Bargaining Stage of Grief

Iranian reformists face an uncertain future as they desperately try to find a presidential candidate that has any chance of winning.

Then-reformist parliamentary leader Mohammad Reza Aref in a meeting in December 2016.

The reformists in Iran have a problem.

The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, more commonly known as just the Iran nuclear deal, lays dead on the floor, waiting to be reanimated by someone who knows how. Just a few years ago, its signing had been the validation the mov…