Ovadali Kordan ( Persian : عوضعلی کردان ; 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.