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Knarik Varuzhani SHABOYAN, a.k.a. Knarik Varuzhani Petrosyan, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent.
    No. 09-72351.
    United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
    Submitted Feb. 15, 2011.
    
    Filed March 7, 2011.
    Peter Singh, Esquire, Peter Singh & Associates, P.C., Fresno, CA, for Petitioner.
    Brianne Whelan Cohen, Oil, Carol Federighi, Esquire, Senior Litigation Counsel, Mona Maria Yousif, U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Division/Offiee of Immigration Litigation, Washington, DC, Chief Counsel Ice, Office of the Chief Counsel Department of Homeland Security, San Francisco, CA, for Respondent.
    
      Before: CANBY, FERNANDEZ, and M. 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

Knarik Varuzhani Shaboyan, a native and citizen of Armenia, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) order dismissing her appeal from an immigration judge’s decision denying her 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 the agency’s factual findings and review de novo legal determinations. Wakkary v. Holder, 558 F.8d 1049, 1056 (9th Cir.2009). We deny the petition for review.

Substantial evidence supports the BIA’s finding that the incidents in which Shaboyan was forced to the back of the food line and rocks were thrown at the house of the Pentecostal congregation gatherings, even considered cumulatively, did not constitute persecution. See Nagoulko v. INS, 333 F.3d 1012, 1016 (9th Cir.2003). Substantial evidence further supports the BIA’s finding that the harm to her husband and family members were not part of “a pattern of persecution closely tied to” Shaboyan. See Wakkary, 558 F.3d at 1060. In addition, substantial evidence supports the BIA’s finding that Shaboyan’s fear of future persecution was not objectively reasonable. See Nagoulko, 333 F.3d at 1018. Accordingly, Shaboyan’s asylum claim fails.

Because Shaboyan failed to establish her eligibility for asylum, she necessarily fails to meet the more stringent standard for withholding of removal. See Zehatye v. Gonzales, 453 F.3d 1182, 1190 (9th Cir.2006).

Finally, substantial evidence supports the BIA’s finding that Shaboyan did not establish a likelihood of torture by, at the instigation of, or with the consent or acquiescence of the Armenian government. See Wakkary, 558 F.3d at 1067-68. Accordingly, Shaboyan’s CAT claim fails.

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