Shias ‘Metastasizing’ Throughout the Levant?

"Is the much-feared ‘Shia Crescent’ turning into a Full Moon?

Elaph’s correspondent in Amman, Amer Hantouli, filed a story a couple of days ago about Jordanian fears of Iranian encroachment onto their home turf. The problem: some Iraqi Shia merchants had bought a piece of land for JD 4 million (about 5.6 million USD) in the posh Abdoun neighborhood (near the US Embassy) and plan to build a Shia mosque on it. The gossip that Hantouli cites has it that these Iraqi merchants are not Iraqi at all, but rather Iranians posing as Iraqis.

I guess the Arab world is still in denial over the existence of Arab Shias in their midst. Jordan has seen waves upon waves of Iraqi migrations since 1991, and there must have been some interaction and intermarriage among Jordanians and Palestinians on the one hand, and Iraqi Shias on the other. Actually, I am aware of plenty of such anecdotal information about unions and conversions, and at the Ashura (Shia religious commemoration) celebrations in al-Mazar in 2002, the crowd was a mix of Iraqis and Jordanian/Palestinians converts."
The Talisman Gate