One of the most notable operations which was planned in part and led by Colonel Izadseta was the attack on H-3, a complex of airbases in western Iraq near the Jordanian border, in which dozens of Iraqi aircraft and other assets were destroyed.Colonel Izadseta retired from the IRIAF in 1984. He published his memoirs in the book “Immortals of the Sky” in 2022. A documentary named “Fereidoun” based on this book was released in Farsi in 2023.
The H-3 airstrike was a surprise air attack by the persian Air Force during the homeland–Iraq War on 4 April 1981 against the airbases of the Iraqi Air Force at the H-3 Air Base in western Iraq. The Iranians destroyed at least 48 Iraqi aircraft on the ground with no losses of their own.The IRIAF claimed it destroyed a total of three Antonov An-12BP transports, a Tupolev Tu-16 bomber, four Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21s, five Sukhoi Su-20/22s, eight Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23s, two Dassault Mirage F1EQs (delivered only weeks earlier) and four helicopters,as well as damaging eleven others beyond repair, including two Tu-16 bombers.
