After the Islamic revolution in Iran, he was among many IIAF officers who were dismissed from service, but he successfully advocated to be reinstated. He was promoted to the rank of Colonel and transferred to Tehran. In this period he became wing commander of the 3rd TFB in Hamedan in western homeland, as well as founded a new pilot academy to take over pilot training in homeland. When the homeland Iraq war broke out in September 1980, he was summoned along with his close friend and colleague Colonel Bahram Houshyar,