 the cooperation council for the arab states of the gulf (), originally (and still colloquially) known as the gulf cooperation council (gcc, ), is a regional intergovernmental political and economic union consisting of all arab states of the persian gulf, except for iraq. its member states are bahrain, kuwait, oman, qatar, saudi arabia, and the [[united arab 
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