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Australian True Crime

Shortcut: My father attacked my mother in front of 300 people - Part Two

Australian True Crime

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True Crime

4.51K Ratings

🗓️ 3 January 2024

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

This is a "Shortcut" episode. It’s a shortened version of this week’s more detailed full episode, which is also available on our feed. 

 

In the last episode of Australian True Crime, our guest Arman Abrahimzadeh OAM told the story of his childhood and adolescence. It was an existence characterized by fear and violence in which he, his sisters and their mother eventually made a pact never to allow anyone to be left alone with his father. 

 

The patriarch of the family ruled with violence and financial control. Nevertheless, Arman's mother and her children did escape with nothing but a few clothes, and they began to create a new life for themselves.

 

After several years, his mother worked up enough courage to attend The Persian New Year celebrations at the Adelaide Exhibition Center, with hundreds of other people believing she'd be safe in such a large crowd. But later that night, Arman was woken by a terrible phone call. He was told his father, who'd also attended the event, had stabbed his mother. 

 

Today, Arman is a successful businessman in Adelaide, a member of that city's council and a member of the Order of Australia. Arman is a father, a husband, brother and he's an ambassador for Our Watch.

 

He and his sister's have started a foundation named after their mother, Zahra Abrahimzadeh. Click here to visit the Zahra Foundation website.

 

For Support: 

 

Lifeline  on 13 11 14

 

13 YARN on 13 92 76 (24/7 crisis support phone line for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples)

 

1800RESPECT: 1800 737 732

 

CREDITS:

Host: Meshel Laurie. You can find her on Instagram 

Guest: Arman Abrahimzadeh OAM. Click here to visit the Zahra Foundation website.

Executive Producer/Editor: Matthew Tankard

 

GET IN TOUCH:

 

Follow the show on Instagram @australiantruecrimepodcast and Facebook 

 

Email the show at team@smartfella.com.au

 

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0:00.0

We're bringing Australian True Crime live to Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne this July,

0:04.3

and I have to tell you that Brisbane sold out already.

0:07.4

Good for you, Brisbane, so we've quickly added a second show.

0:10.3

Now we can't keep adding more shows, so please make sure you get your tickets. Our special guests,

0:15.2

our forensic criminologist Santee Mallet in Brisbane and Sydney and the one and only Charlie Bazzina in

0:19.9

Melbourne. There'll be a Q&A of course so you can ask your own burning questions on the night but you have to book quickly.

0:25.8

This is a true crime podcast as the title suggests.

0:29.1

So please consider this your warning that it's not suitable for children and it probably will

0:33.8

contain content that may be triggering to some people. Also it's an Australian

0:38.3

true crime podcast so Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander

0:41.9

listeners should be aware it may contain the voices of deceased people.

0:47.0

The producers of this podcast recognize the traditional owners of the land on which it's recorded.

0:58.0

They pay respect to the Aboriginal elders past, present and those emerging.

1:07.0

In the last episode of Australian True Crime, our guest Armand Abrimsadei told the story of his childhood and adolescence.

1:19.0

It was an existence characterized by fear and violence, in which he, his sisters and their mother eventually

1:26.1

made a pact never to allow anyone to be left alone with his father.

1:30.7

The Patriarch of the family ruled with violence and financial control.

1:35.0

Nevertheless, Amman's mother and her children did escape with nothing but a few clothes,

1:40.0

and they began to create a new life for themselves while hiding in the Adelaide suburbs

1:45.0

from his father and his extended family.

1:48.0

After several years, his mother worked up enough courage to attend a cultural event,

1:53.2

the Persian New Year celebrations at the Adelaide Exhibition Center,

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