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Comment: From the ground: Slow but gradual change sweeping Saudi Arabia

Clinton relied on his well-known charm as he called for women to gain the right to drive in the kingdom. (For the record, women drove in Saudi Arabia, albeit outside of major cities, before the 1991 War for Kuwait.

Created in the aftermath of the 1979 Iranian Revolution, that same year's Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, and the start of the Iran-Iraq War in 1980, the GCC purported to be a defence alliance without emphasising security.