Iran’s parliament has voted to sack Ali Kordan after he admitted that his Oxford degree in Law was forged.
According to reports 188 MPs, both conservatives and moderates, out of a total of 247, voted to remove Kordan from office.
Now Iran’s former Interior Minister, Kordan came to international attention in August when Oxford University released an official statement denying that Mr Kordan had ever received a Law degree from the institution.
Copies of the degree were later released onto the internet via Iranian political websites and the diploma was revealed to be a crude forgery riddled with spelling and grammatical errors.
At the time, Oxford University confirmed that the academics who ‘signed’ the diploma had all held Oxford posts, but never in the field of Law, and they would never have signed degree diplomas either.
The vote to expel Kordan from parliament comes after 20 Iranian ministers called for his impeachment last month.
