in international convention you meet people from all over the world naturally he met Israelis, especially when it come to academic forces. so this is pointless speculation. I bet my money on oppostion activists who went underground to revange the Ayatula supporter. and it got nothing to do with Israel but fighting for secular state.

". . .while local opposition elements claimed that Mohammadi was a reformist and was taken out by the government, which had discovered he intended to seek asylum in Sweden." Now that's more like it!