"Kordan will face an impeachment vote on Nov. 4," Hamid Reza Haji-Babaei, a member of parliament's presiding board, was quoted as saying.

Kordan, who took up the cabinet post in August, acknowledged in a Sept. 27 letter that he was in possession of a forged Oxford University degree.

Ever since his announcement, Kordan has faced calls for his resignation or impeachment from the parliamentarians.

A member of the central committee of the Principalist bloc, Ali Motahari, said earlier that more than 30 lawmakers from the bloc, which holds the majority of seats in parliament, have called for Kordan's impeachment.

Under the Iranian law, an impeachment motion needs a minimum of10 signatures to be put on the agenda.

Haji-Babaei said the impeachment session would last 5 hours, during which the minister would have a 3-hour opportunity to argue his case.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was also expected to attend the session to support his minister.

Kordan had asserted the degree was issued through a person who had opened an affiliate office in Tehran in English-language affairs.

He said he had pressed charges against the person, who claimed to represent Oxford University in Tehran, as soon as he found out his degree was fake.