Release of abducted pilgrims in Syria was a success for Iran's good and logical diplomacy towards regional developments, Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani said on Friday, IRNA reported.
He made the remarks in a meeting with the local officials in Aran-va-Bidgol, Isfahan Province.
"Freedom of kidnapped Iranian pilgrims demonstrated Iran's regional power and was a result of its good relations with the regional countries and Syrian government."
Larijani noted that the Islamic Republic of Iran supports political reform in Syria and believe that establishment of peace and security is the pre-requisite to achieve the goal.
"All parties involved in Syrian crisis have understood the fact that Syrian crisis has no military solution; enemies aim to weaken the Palestinian resistance movement through Syria."
Pointing to the double-standard of the western governments about democratic demands of different nations, he said that the western approach toward people's demands around the world is paradoxical and those who support terrorist groups in Syria have kept silent toward Bahraini government's brutal crackdown on the peaceful protesters and the Bahraini nation's peaceful demands for democracy.
Meanwhile, Chairman of Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Alaeddin Boroujerdi lauded the Syrian government's role in the release of 48 kidnapped Iranian pilgrims on Thursday.
Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of a ceremony which was held at Mehrabad Airport to celebrate the freedom and arrival of the 48 pilgrims, Boroujerdi noted that despite the negative role of some countries, Syrian government did its best to help release the kidnapped pilgrims.
Majlis Speaker Ali Larijani had also in a message to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad thanked him for helping release the Iranian pilgrims abducted by the armed rebels.
48 Iranian pilgrims taken hostage by terrorist groups in Syria arrived in Tehran late Thursday.
They were released and handed over to the Iranian Embassy in Damascus late Wednesday.
Iranian Foreign Ministry embarked on intensive diplomatic campaign to bring the hostages home since their abduction last August.
Syria has been experiencing unrest since March 2011 with organized attacks by well-armed gangs against Syrian police forces and border guards being reported across the country.
Thousands of people, including members of the security forces, have been killed, when some protest rallies turned into armed clashes.
The government blames outlaws, saboteurs, and armed terrorist groups for the deaths, stressing that the unrest is being orchestrated from abroad.
In October 2011, calm was eventually restored in the Arab state after President Assad started a reform initiative in the country, but Israel, the US and its Arab allies are seeking hard to drive the country into chaos through any possible means. Tel Aviv, Washington and some Arab capitals have been staging various plots in the hope of increasing unrest in Syria.