Oroujyan

MEMORANDUM

Sirvard Oroujyan, a native and citizen of Armenia, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) order dismissing her appeal from an immigration judge’s (“IJ”) decision denying her application for asylum, withholding of removal, and protection under the Convention Against Torture (“CAT”). We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252 . We review adverse credibility determinations for substantial evidence, Chebchoub v. INS, 257 F.3d 1038, 1042 (9th Cir.2001), and we deny the petition for review.

Substantial evidence supports the IJ’s adverse credibility determination because Oroujyan’s testimony was inconsistent with her declaration concerning the details of her escape from the September 1999 attack and concerning whether her February 2000 attackers threatened her with a gun or a knife, see Chebchoub, 257 F.3d at 1043 (inconsistencies in the details of events that form the basis for the asylum claim go to the heart of the claim and support an adverse credibility finding), and the IJ reasonably found Oroujyan’s explanations for the discrepancies unconvincing, see Rivera v. Mulcasey, 508 F.3d 1271, 1275 (9th Cir.2007). In the absence of credible…