Abrahamyan

MEMORANDUM **

Petitioner Varuzh Abrahamyan, an Iranian native and Armenian citizen, seeks review of the decision by the Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”). The BIA dismissed Abrahamyan’s appeal from the Immigration Judge’s (“U”) denial of an application for asylum, withholding of removal, and relief under the Convention Against Torture (“CAT”). We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252 . We deny the petition for review.

The BIA’s decision relied on the IJ’s reasoning and reviewed the IJ’s factual findings for clear error. See 8 C.F.R. § 1003.1 (d)(3). We look to the IJ’s decision “as a guide to what lay behind the BIA’s conclusion,” Kozulin v. INS, 218 F.3d 1112, 1115 (9th Cir.2000), and review the IJ’s findings for substantial evidence, Lata v. INS, 204 F.3d 1241, 1245 (9th Cir.2000). We will grant the petition for review only if the evidence compels a contrary conclusion. See Zehatye v. Gonzales, 453 F.3d 1182, 1185 (9th Cir.2006).

Abrahamyan fails to show that a different method of translation “would have made a difference in the outcome of the hearing.” Kotasz v. INS, 31 F.3d 847 , 850 n. 2 (9th Cir.1994) (internal quotations omitted). 2 The record demonstrates that…