Tsaturyan

MEMORANDUM

Khachik Tsaturyan, a native of Iran and citizen of Armenia, petitions pro se for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ order dismissing his appeal from an immigration judge’s decision denying his application for asylum, withholding of removal, and relief under the Convention Against Torture (“CAT”). We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252 . We review for substantial evidence and will uphold the agency’s decision unless the evidence compels a contrary conclusion. Tekle v. Mukasey, 533 F.3d 1044, 1051 (9th Cir.2008). We deny the petition for review.

Substantial evidence supports the agency’s adverse credibility determination because Tsaturyan’s asylum application omits that he was persecuted on account of his ethnicity, nationality, and political opinion, see Li v. Ashcroft, 378 F.3d 959, 962 (9th Cir.2004) (omission of matters that go to the heart of the claim from asylum application support an adverse credibility determination), and because Tsaturyan’s testimony was inconsistent with witness affidavits regarding the burning of his gas station, the number of times he was beaten, whether he was hospitalized, and the extent of the injuries he allegedly suffered,…