Saudi King Salman on Tuesday, ordered that women be allowed to drive cars, ending the conservative kingdom's status as the only country where that is forbidden.
The royal decree ordered the formation of a ministerial body to give advice within 30 days and then implement the order by June 2018, according to state news agency SPA.
The kingdom, which announced the change was the only the country in the world to bar women fromdriving and for years had garnered negative publicity internationally for detaining women who defied the ban.
Last year a Saudi cleric took to Twitter to explain why it's sinful for women to drive.
"When a woman is driving, she's exposed to vibrations, this shakes her vagina, she will feel sexual euphoria and this is haraam" he wrote.
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