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KEZHAN JIANG, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent.
    No. 12-72235.
    United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
    Submitted Nov. 18, 2014.
    
    Filed Dec. 2, 2014.
    Kezhan Jiang, Monterey Park, CA, pro se.
    Evan Lee Murri, Esquire, Law Offices of Evan L. Murri, Montclair, CA, for Petitioner.
    Aric Allan Anderson, Carlton Frederick Sheffield, OIL, U.S. Department Of Justice, Washington, DC, Chief Counsel Ice, Office of the Chief Counsel Department of Homeland Security, San Francisco, CA, for Respondent.
    Before: LEAVY, FISHER, and N.R. SMITH, Circuit Judges.
    
      
       The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R.App. P. 34(a)(2).
    
   MEMORANDUM

Kezhan Jiang, a native and citizen of China, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) order dismissing his appeal from the immigration judge’s decision denying his 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 the agency’s factual findings, applying the standards created by the REAL ID Act governing adverse credibility determinations. Shrestha v. Holder, 590 F.3d 1034, 1039-40 (9th Cir.2010). We dismiss in part and deny the petition for review.

Among other things, the BIA found Jiang not credible based on an inconsistency between Jiang’s testimony and supporting documentation regarding whether his wife underwent an abortion in December 1999, and an inconsistency regarding the year he began protesting the government’s seizure of his land. Substantial evidence supports the BIA’s credibility determination. See id. at 1048 (adverse credibility finding was reasonable under the totality of the circumstances). We lack jurisdiction to review Jiang’s contentions that his nervousness and lack of education caused him to testify inaccurately because Jiang did not exhaust these claims before the agency. See Barron v. Ashcroft, 358 F.3d 674, 677-78 (9th Cir.2004) (court lacks jurisdiction to review claims not raised to the agency). Jiang’s remaining explanations do not compel a contrary result. See Lata v. INS, 204 F.3d 1241, 1245 (9th Cir.2000). In the absence of credible testimony, Jiang’s asylum and withholding of removal claims fail. See Farah v. Ashcroft, 348 F.3d 1153, 1156 (9th Cir.2003).

Finally, Jiang’s CAT claim fails because it is based on the same testimony the BIA found not credible, and Jiang does not point to any other evidence in the record that compels the conclusion that it is more likely than not he would be tortured by or with the consent or acquiescence of a public official in China. See id. at 1156-57.

PETITION FOR REVIEW DISMISSED in part; DENIED in part. 
      
       This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.