Chairman of the Iranian parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Alaeddin Boroujerdi criticized Turkey for its hostile measures against Syria in recent months, and said Ankara is losing the precious time and opportunity for moderating its hasty policies on its Muslim neighbor.

"It is important for us that the crisis in a Muslim world country be settled," Boroujerdi said in a televised interview with Iran-based al-Alam news network on Monday.

"I think that it is also important for our Turkish friends to somehow moderate their policies after such a long time of pursuing hasty policies (on Syria)," he added.

Turkey along with the US, Saudi Arabia and Qatar have been supporting terrorists and rebel groups in Syria and have practically brought a UN peace initiative into failure to bring President Assad's government into collapse.

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.

Hundreds 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 bring 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 unrests in Syria.
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