Iran wants to combat Saudi influence with the goal of minimising the Sunni-Shia conflict that is detrimental to its regional interests. It wants Muslims and non-Muslims alike to see Shiaism as a valid form of Islam, not a sect to be condemned as heresy, as some radical Sunnis have over the last 15 years. These goals aren't unreasonable but the technique of mosque-building is now an archaic, even obsolete, way to accomplish คthem. Radicalisation and the spread of Islamic religious ideas increasingly takes place out- side mosques.