Note: This article originally was published at The Diplomat website. The arrest of an Iranian official in Afghanistan in late August for “recruiting Afghan Shiite fighters and sending them to Syria” illustrates how the Middle East’s Sunni-Shia battle for

Source: The Saudi-Iran Rivalry and Sectarian Strife in South Asia: Iran and Saudi Arabia are recruiting and radicalizing local Muslim populations in Afghanistan, India, and Pakistan. :: The Investigative Project on Terrorism