Ali Kordan was an Iranian conservative politician who served in the Revolutionary Guards, the judiciary and as deputy oil minister, before becoming interior minister of Iran in 2008 for just 90 days.
11 Facts About Ali Kordan
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Ali Kordan was impeached by the Iranian Parliament on 4 November 2008 after a doctorate he claimed to hold turned out to be fraudulent.
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Ali Kordan previously served as deputy labour minister, president of Iran's technical and vocational organization, deputy head of the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting for provincial and parliamentary affairs, deputy head of IRIB for administrative and financial affairs, and deputy minister for culture and Islamic guidance for administrative and financial affairs.
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Ali Kordan was appointed deputy oil minister in October 2007, which he had turned down in 2006.
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Ali Kordan was confirmed by the Parliament by 169 votes to 100 in August 2008.
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Ali Kordan claimed to have an honorary doctorate in law from the University of Oxford.
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Four days later, the university published an official statement on its website that they had no record of Ali Kordan having received any degree, honorary or otherwise.
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On 27 September 2008, in a letter to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Ali Kordan admitted that the degree was fake, explaining that he had been deceived by a "person who claimed to represent Oxford University in Tehran".
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Ali Kordan accused the media of a smear campaign by portraying him as a "terrorist".
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On 4 November 2008, the Iranian parliament voted to impeach interior minister Ali Kordan for lying about his credentials and presenting a fake degree from Oxford University.
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Ali Kordan died of multiple myeloma at Tehran's Masih Daneshvari hospital on 22 November 2009 at the age of 51.