TEHRAN, Oct 26: Iran’s parliament will move to impeach Interior Minister Ali Kordan for “dishonesty” early November after he confessed to holding a fake Oxford University degree, the ISNA news agency said on Sunday.

“Kordan will face an impeachment vote on Nov 4,” a member of parliament’s board, Hamid Reza Hajibabai, was quoted as saying.

Pressure has been mounting on Kordan to quit the cabinet post he took up in August after the prestigious British university denied awarding him any qualification through a representative, as he had claimed.

“The minister has claimed to have been deceived by the Oxford University’s representative... whether he has been deceived or dishonest, such a person does not deserve to be interior minister,” read the motion signed by 28 MPs.

An impeachment motion needs a minimum of 10 signatures to be put on parliament’s agenda.

Kordan had asserted the degree was issued for his “managerial and executive experience and for submitting a thesis to Oxford University via a person who had opened an affiliate office in Tehran in English-language affairs.” —AFP