General Izadi requests mobilization against threats to Iran General Izadi defended the determination of the population and the fighters in defense of the Islamic Republic, and stated that popular mobilization is essential to thwarting the actions of an adversary. In a returned statement, the military praised Qasem Soleimani's role in the resistance and accused the United States and Israel of promoting successive conspiracies against Iran. "Don't abandon the battlefields," he declared.