Ali Kordan
| Ali Kordan | |
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| Minister of the Interior of Iran | |
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In office 12 August 2008 – 4 November 2008 |
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| President | Mahmoud Ahmadinejad |
| Preceded by | Seyyed Mehdi Hashemi (acting) |
| Succeeded by | Sadegh Mahsouli |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 23 October 1958 Sari, Iran |
| Died | 22 November 2009 (aged 51) Tehran, Iran |
Ali Kordan (23 October 1958 – 22 November 2009) 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. He was impeached by the Iranian Parliament on 4 November 2008 after a doctorate he claimed to hold turned out to be fraudulent.
Kordan was a former revolutionary guard and a veteran of the Iraq war. He previously served as deputy labour minister, president of Iran's technical and vocational organization, deputy head of the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) 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.
He also served in the Iranian judiciary. He was appointed deputy oil minister in October 2007, which he had turned down in 2006.
In 2008, President Ahmadinejad nominated Kordan as the interior minister in a cabinet reshuffle. He was confirmed by the Parliament by 169 votes to 100 in August 2008. However, during his confirmation debate in the parliament, questions arose among MPs and in the media over his qualifications and over a doctorate he claimed to have received. Kordan replaced Mostafa Pour Mohammadi in the post.
During his tenure as the deputy head of IRIB in financial affairs, Ali Kordan was accused of a high-profile financial corruption (525 billion Tomans). However the judiciary system did not charge him after a long investigation.Kayhan published an article accusing Kordan of corruption in "The Crescent File".
Kordan claimed to have an honorary doctorate in law from the University of Oxford. When questioned about this, he released a document stating that such a degree had been conferred on him in June 2000 and under-signed by three Oxford University professors. A copy of the certificate was released. Alef, a website "associated with one of Ahmadinejad's critics", pointed to "typing errors, garbled English and misspellings". The document stated Kordan
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