Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit September 6, 2000, 98-71179 (Abbas Zahedi v. Immigration and Naturalization Service)

FLETCHER, Circuit Judge:

Abbas Zahedi, a citizen of Iran, petitions for review of the determination of the Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA” or “Board”) that he has not established asylum eligibility. Zahedi was involved in an endeavor with one other person to translate and informally distribute a Farsi edition of Salman Rushdie’s banned novel

The Satanic Verses.