Kantourian

MEMORANDUM **

Andranic Kantourian, a native of Syria and citizen of Armenia, petitions for review of an order of the Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”) summarily affirming an immigration judge’s (“IJ”) order denying his applications for asylum, withholding of removal, and protection under the Convention Against Torture (“CAT”). We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252 . Reviewing the IJ’s adverse credibility deter *659 mination for substantial evidence, Kasnecovic v. Gonzales, 400 F.3d 812, 813 (9th Cir.2005), we deny the petition for review.

Kantourian challenged two of the four reasons that the IJ put forward to support his adverse credibility determination. Both of Kantourian’s arguments have merit. Kantourian’s testimony as to whether his wife was arrested with him in April 1995 at Monument Park reveals, at most, a minor inconsistency. See Mendoza Manimbao v. Ashcroft, 329 F.3d 655, 660 (9th Cir.2003) (“minor inconsistencies in the record that do not relate to the basis of an applicant’s alleged fear of persecution, go to the heart of the asylum claim, or reveal anything about an asylum applicant’s fear for his safety are insufficient to support an adverse credibility…