Ghazaryan

MEMORANDUM *

Naira Ghazaryan, a native and citizen of Armenia, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) adoption and affirmance of an immigration judge’s *140 (“U”) denial of her application for asylum and withholding of removal. We review the agency’s legal interpretations de novo, Altamirano v. Gonzales, 427 F.3d 586, 591 (9th Cir.2005), and its factual findings for substantial evidence, Mohammed v. Gonzales, 400 F.3d 785, 791 (9th Cir.2005). We deny the petition for review.

Substantial evidence supports the BIA’s determination that Ghazaryan assisted or otherwise participated in the persecution of a political prisoner. In her asylum interview, Ghazaryan stated that she escorted a political prisoner to the isolator in the fall of 1999, and that the prisoner was beaten there, needing three days to recover. Although Ghazaryan later testified that the incident did not take place on her shift, the agency was entitled to rely on the statements Ghazaryan made under oath at the asylum interview. See SinghKaur v. INS, 183 F.3d 1147, 1150 (9th Cir.1999) (“The possibility of drawing two inconsistent conclusions from the evidence does not prevent an…