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TEHRAN, Nov. 4 (UPI) -- Iran's Parliament has impeached Interior Minister Ali Kordan in a move seen by some as an attack on Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, analysts said.
With 188 votes to impeach Kordan, 45 against and 14 abstentions, the parliamentary action upped the stakes in a scandal in which Kordan is accused of falsely claiming he possessed a doctorate degree from Britain's Oxford University, CNN reported Tuesday.
Ahmadinejad, who promoted Kordan to the interior ministry position two months ago, called the impeachment illegal. Kordan suggested Israeli media were behind the flap, in which he says he didn't realize his purported Oxford Ph.D. was phony. Kordan told Parliament he was duped into accepting its authenticity, CNN said.
Iranian political analysts told the Washington Post that Kordan's impeachment would push Ahmadinejad closer to having to submit his entire cabinet for parliamentary review. The body is led by Speaker Ali Larijani, one of Ahmadinejad's chief political rivals.
Iran's constitution requires such a review if more than half the cabinet ministers are replaced, and Ahmadinejad had replaced nine of 21, the Post reported.
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