Azene

MEMORANDUM **

Tadese Azene, aka Tadese Azene Wube, a native and citizen of Ethiopia, petitions pro se for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) order affirming the Immigration Judge’s (“IJ”) decision denying his application for asylum, withholding of removal, and protection under the Convention Against Torture (“CAT”). We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252 . We review for substantial evidence, id., and we deny the petition for review.

*649 Substantial evidence supports the BIA’s determination that petitioner did not establish past persecution or a well-founded fear of future persecution on account of a protected ground. See Sangha v. INS, 103 F.3d 1482, 1486 (9th Cir.1997). Petitioner did not testify that he suffered past persecution. Rather, he claimed that he has a fear of future persecution both on account of his Amhara ethnicity and his political opinion opposing the current Ethiopian government.

The record does not compel the conclusion that petitioner has a well-founded fear of future persecution on either protected ground. See Mgoian v. INS, 184 F.3d 1029 , 1035 n. 4 (9th Cir.1999) (internal quotation marks omitted) (an applicant may establish a…