Iran minister sacked over forgery

[muriel_volestrangler]

Source: BBC

Parliament in Iran has voted to sack Interior Minister Ali Kordan after he admitted a degree he said he obtained from Oxford University was a forgery.
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The BBC's Jon Leyne in Tehran says the row could have serious implications for President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

MPs have accused the president of grave naivety for having been taken in by the lies of his minister.
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The scandal has made the former minister a national laughing stock, with a fake resignation letter being passed round purporting to be from him, but full of misprints and crossings-out.

One MP said Mr Kordan - who worked as a university lecturer - had related invented tales to his students about his days in Oxford. In fact he has never visited and does not even have a first degree.

Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7707963.stm

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Hard to see how he could claim he got it 'in good faith', if he was also making up stories about his time there.

Interesting to see the lies that politicians get up to in other countries.

[dipsydoodle]

1. claim he got it 'in good faith',

Well if he bought it on ebay then surely he did get it in good faith. :sarcasm:

[machI]

2. Yet another member of the Bush Administration is looking for a job

[frog92969]

3. I wish we had accountability in government...

like they do in Iran.
:wow:

[LeftishBrit]

4. 'In good faith'? How can you THINK you've got a degree from Oxford when you haven't?

It does take three years of rather hard work!

I'm sure Oxford are quite happy not to be Kordan's alma mater. Maggie Thatcher and Tony Blair disgraced the place enough.

[Ian David]

5. He should have just gone to Regent University like the Bushies do. n/t