Shamo

MEMORANDUM **

Yivyan Patros Shamo, a native and citizen of Iraq, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ order dismissing her appeal from an immigration judge’s (“IJ”) decision denying her application for asylum and withholding of removal. We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252 . We review for substantial evidence, Prasad v. INS, 47 F.3d 336, 338-39 (9th Cir.1995), and we deny the petition for review.

Substantial evidence supports the IJ’s determination that the harassment and detentions suffered by Shamo did not rise to the level of past persecution. See Al-Saher v. INS, 268 F.3d 1143, 1146 (9th Cir.2001); Gu v. Gonzales, 454 F.3d 1014, 1019-21 (9th Cir.2006). Substantial evidence also supports the IJ’s determination that Shamo failed to establish a well-founded fear of future persecution because she did not submit any evidence to the IJ of persecution of Chaldean Christians in Iraq and the IJ properly took notice of changed political conditions at the time of the hearing. See Nagoulko v. INS, 333 F.3d 1012, 1018 (9th Cir.2003); see also Acewicz v. INS, 984 F.2d 1056, 1059-61 (9th Cir.1993).

Because Shamo failed to establish eligibility for asylum, she…