The Movement for Islamic Reform in Arabia was a British-based Saudi oppositionist organization headed by Sa'ad Al-Faqih, who has been a key figure in the reform movement in Saudi Arabia since the Persian Gulf War. According to al-Faqih, "[the] MIRA office in London is the information and media centre of the movement rather than the leadership." MIRA was established in London in April 1996, and its aim, along with that of the Committee for the Defense of Legitimate Rights (CDLR), which seemed to be a front for Hizb ut-Tahrir and Mohammad al-Massari, is to change the ruling system from a monarchy to an Islamic one using political means.