You think Supreme Court nominee John Roberts is facing tough scrutiny? The nominee for Iran's powerful position of Oil Minister, Ali Saeedlou, couldn't get past his educational résumé. A political protégé of Iran's new President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Saeedlou had no oil-industry experience but boasted an impressive credential: a Ph.D. in "strategic management" from Hartford University, awarded in 2003, according to an official résumé distributed by the Iranian government.
But last week a member of Iran's Parliament asked Saeedlou how he could have received a doctorate from an American university when he was supposedly living in Iran. Saeedlou admitted that Hartford (no...
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