After entering the IIAF and training to fly jets in the US, he returned to Iran and served in Vahdati AFB in Dezful in the southwest. There he served in the 202nd tactical fighter squadron (TFS) under Captain (later Major General) A. Minousepehr, flying the F-86 Sabre jet fighter. He went on to become an instructor in the newly established Fighter Weapons School at Vahdati. He also became an instructor pilot and member of the IIAF Golden Crown precision aerobatic team, led by Colonel (later General) Jahanbani.
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.
