President Assad voiced his readiness to hold talks with the opposition groups, Salehi told reporters on the sidelines of an international meeting on diplomacy in Tehran on Wednesday.
He added that his recent visits to Jordan and Syria were paid to exchange views with officials of the two countries over major bilateral, regional and international issues.
Salehi said "proper and acceptable" decisions were made during his meeting with President Bashar al-Assad of Syria.
"People of Syria are vigilantly monitoring the ongoing situation," the foreign minister said.
He added that Tehran expects "real opponents of the Syrian government to distance themselves from mercenary groups and hold talks with the government over the country's future".
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 almost restored in the Arab state after President Assad started a reform initiative in the country, but Israel, the US and its Arab allies sought hard to bring the country into chaos through any possible means. Tel Aviv, Washington and some Arab capitals have been staging various plots to topple President Bashar al-Assad, who is well known in the world for his anti-Israeli stances.
