Yousif

MEMORANDUM **

Nida Azziz Yousif, a native and citizen of Iraq, 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”). Our jurisdiction is governed by 8 U.S.C. § 1252 . We review for substantial evidence, Lopez v. Ashcroft, 366 F.3d 799, 802 (9th Cir.2004), and we grant the petition for review in part, and dismiss in part.

The BIA assumed arguendo that Yousif, a Chaldean Christian, established past persecution. When the petitioner has established past persecution, our case law requires that the agency provide an “individualized analysis of how changed conditions will affect the specific petitioner’s situation,” Lopez, 366 F.3d at 805 (citation omitted), and “[^Information about general changes in the country is not sufficient.” Rios v. Ashcroft, 287 F.3d 895, 901 (9th Cir.2002) (internal citation and quotations omitted). In this case, the government did not submit evidence that specifically discussed the effects of the American invasion on the persecution of Chaldean Christians,…