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SHARIF v. I.N.S.

No. 95-2695.

87 F.3d 932 (1996)

Soroya SHARIF, Petitioner, v. IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided July 3, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lawrence Alberg (argued), Reza Baniassadi, Chicago, IL, for petitioner.

Janet Reno, U.S. Atty. Gen., Office of the U.S. Atty. Gen., Washington, DC, Samuel Der-Yeghiayan, I.N.S., Chicago, IL, James B. Burns, Office of the U.S. Atty., Chicago, IL, William J. Howard, David M. McConnell, Ellen Shapiro, Marion E. Guyton, Papu Sandhu (argued), Dept. of Justice, Civ. Div., Immigration Litigation, Washington, DC, for respondent.

Before POSNER, Chief Judge, and ESCHBACH and ROVNER, Circuit Judges.

ESCHBACH, Circuit Judge.

Soroya Sharif petitions this court to overturn a decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals denying her claims for asylum and withholding of deportation. Sharif argues that if she returns to her home country of Iran she will be persecuted because of her family and her status as a "westernized woman." We conclude that the BIA's decision was supported by substantial evidence, and deny Sharif's petition...

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