Simonyan

MEMORANDUM **

Varditer Simonyan and her son, natives and citizens of Armenia, petition for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ order dismissing their appeal from an immigration judge’s decision denying their 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. Gu v. Gonzales, 454 F.3d 1014, 1018 (9th Cir. 2006). We deny the petition for review.

Substantial evidence supports the agency’s adverse credibility determination because Simonyan testified inconsistently with her asylum application regarding issues that go to the heart of her claim, including who beat her husband after he gave a political speech in 1997, whether her husband reported the beating to the police, and the circumstances surrounding her son’s abduction. See Li v. Ashcroft, 378 F.3d 959, 962 (9th Cir.2004). Accord *620 ingly, petitioners’ asylum and withholding of removal claims fail. See Farah v. Ashcroft, 348 F.3d 1153, 1156 (9th Cir.2003).

Because petitioners’ CAT claim is based on…