Commentaries, Analysis And Editorials -- July 6, 2015

Economist: Greece's referendum. "No" to what?

Greek voters have rejected austerity. Whether they meant to or not, they may find out they have also rejected the euro

IT WAS more than Greece's "No" campaigners could have hoped for—and it may turn out to be more than they bargained for. Alexis Tsipras, the radical left-wing prime minister, snatched an unexpectedly easy win in Sunday’s hastily arranged referendum on whether the country should compromise with its creditors, the European Union and the International Monetary Fund, on a new bail-out deal. Going into the vote, opinion polls showed Mr Tsipras’s anti-austerity “No” camp just a shade ahead of “Yes” supporters, who included the main opposition parties. Yet supporters of Mr Tsipras’s fractious Syriza party rallied behind him: with more than 95% of the vote counted, "No" was ahead by 61.3% to 38.7%. The gap was so humiliatingly wide that Antonis Samaras, the former prime minister (unseated by Mr Tsipras in January) who had championed the "Yes" campaign, promptly resigned from the leadership of the centre-right New Democracy party.

Commentaries, Analysis And Editorials -- July 6, 2015

Greece Called Europe’s Bluff. Will Europe Really Let Greece Crash Out of the Euro? -- Joshua Keating, Slate

What No Means After Greece's Referendum -- Stratfor

Kurdish fighters’ success against Islamic State makes Turkey nervous -- Campbell MacDiarmid, Special to The Washington Times

The only safe way to make a nuclear deal with Iran -- Elizabeth Rosenberg and Peter Harrell, Reuters

Why Iran's Supreme Leader Wants a Deal -- Omid Memarian, Politico

Is the military option to strike Iran (legally) on the table? -- Charles J. Dunlap Jr., The Hill

The Spy Tech That Will Keep Iran in Line -- Tim Mak, Daily Beast

What Do Iranian-Americans Think of the Nuclear Deal? -- Reza Aslan, NYT

Why Arabs must resolve the Libya and Yemen crises now -- Raghida Dergham, Al Arabiya

How to Beat ISIS: Divide Syria Into Parts -- Michael O'Hanlon, Newsweek

Isis flag: What do the words mean and what are its origins? -- Kashmira Gander, The Independent

U.S. Wooing Vietnam, Readies Red Carpet for Communist Chief -- Grant Peck, Real Clear Defense

Will we let Ukraine die? -- Jackson Diehl, Washington Post

What the Russians Crave: Cheese -- Masha Gessen, NYT

Nicaragua divided over enormous canal project -- Reese Erlich, ABC News (Australia)

Refugees: The Crisis Every Country Must Face -- Bloomberg editorial