Case Name: Alexan ASADOURIAN, Petitioner, v. John ASHCROFT, Attorney General, Respondent
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2004-12-13
Citations: 118 F. App'x 254
Docket Number: No. 03-74056
Parties: Alexan ASADOURIAN, Petitioner, v. John ASHCROFT, Attorney General, Respondent.
Judges: Before: GOODWIN, WALLACE, and TROTT, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 118
Pages: 254–254

Head Matter:
Alexan ASADOURIAN, Petitioner, v. John ASHCROFT, Attorney General, Respondent.
No. 03-74056.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Submitted Dec. 6, 2004.
Decided Dec. 13, 2004.
Asbet A. Issakhanian, Glendale, CA, for Petitioner.
Regional Counsel, Western Region Immigration & Naturalization Service, Laguna Niguel, CA, Ronald E. Lefevre, Chief Legal Officer, Office of the District Counsel Department of Homeland Security, San Francisco, CA, OIL, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for Respondent.
Before: GOODWIN, WALLACE, and TROTT, Circuit Judges.
The panel unanimously finds this case suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R.App. P. 34(a)(2).

Opinion:
MEMORANDUM
Alexan Asadourian, a native and citizen of Iran, petitions pro se for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals' ("BIA") dismissal of his appeal from an Immigration Judge's ("IJ") denial of his 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 an adverse credibility determination, Chebchoub v. INS, 257 F.3d 1038, 1042 (9th Cir.2001), and we deny the petition.
Substantial evidence supports the BIA's adverse credibility determination. Asadourian gave four conflicting answers as to which month in 1988 he was arrested and beaten. While "alleged inconsistencies in dates that reveal nothing about' a petitioner's credibility cannot form the basis of an adverse credibility finding," Bandari v. INS, 227 F.3d 1160, 1166 (9th Cir.2000), here Asadourian could not consistently give the month in which one of the two incidents upon which he bases his claim occurred. See Chebchoub, 257 F.3d at 1043 (upholding adverse credibility determination where inconsistencies were not minor and related to basis of fear of persecution).
Because Asadourian failed to demonstrate that he was eligible for asylum, it follows that he did not satisfy the more stringent standard for withholding of removal. See Farah v. Ashcroft, 348 F.3d 1153, 1156 (9th Cir.2003).
In addition, because his claim for relief under the CAT was based on the same incredible evidence as his asylum application, substantial evidence also supports the BIA's denial of relief under the CAT. See id. at 1156-57.
PETITION FOR REVIEW DENIED.
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and may not be cited to or by the courts of this circuit except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3.