Abbassi

MEMORANDUM **

Barman Abbassi, a native and citizen of Iran, petitions for review of an order of the Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”) denying his motion to • reopen deportation proceedings. We have jurisdiction pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § llOSala), 1 and we deny the petition.

*457 We review for abuse of discretion the BIA’s denial of Abbassi’s motion to reopen. See Socop-Gonzalez v. INS, 272 F.3d 1176, 1187 (9th Cir.2001) (en banc). We deny Abbassi’s petition for review because he filed his motion to reopen long after the 90-day deadline for filing had passed, and because he did not qualify for an exception to the deadline by offering adequate evidence of changed circumstances arising in Iran. See 8 C.F.R. § 3.2 (c)(2)-(3)(ii). Hearsay evidence suggesting that a translator who worked on Abbassi’s earlier asylum application now lives in Iran and “would get a person in trouble if he has to or wants to ...” is not material to Abbassi’s asylum claim. See Elias-Zacarias v. U.S. INS, 921 F.2d 844 , 854 n. 13 (9th Cir.1990) (holding that evidence is material if it “tend[s] to strengthen the alien’s claim for relief____”), rev’d on other grounds by 502 U.S. 478 , 112 S.Ct. 812 , 117…