The Iranian parliament motion Sunday demanded that Interior Minister Ali Kordan be impeached for having presented it with a faked honorary doctorate from Oxford University, ISNA news agency reported.
Parliament will debate on November 4 whether the impeachment would be accepted or not, ISNA said.
In a letter to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad last month, Kordan admitted that the certificate from the prestigious British university which he presented to parliament was a fake, dpa reported.
But he also claimed that he was victim of a swindle by a man who allegedly posed as a representative in Tehran of the university.
Presentation of false documents, especially in government service, is a crime punishable by a imprisonment in Iran.
Signatories of the impeachment motion have said irrespective of whether he had been deceived or was dishonest, Kordan could no longer hold the post of interior minister - a post directly in charge of next year's presidential elections.