A crowd of some 1,000 demonstrators threw petrol bombs at the Danish embassy in Tehran and tried to break into it tonight in a protest over the publication of cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammad.
Indonesian protesters raise their hands while shouting anti-Danish slogans during a protest in front of Denmark's embassy in Jakarta today.
To chants of "God is Greatest" and "Death to America" the crowd tried to break down the metal gate entrance to the embassy, which sits behind a high wall in a residential district of northern Tehran.
Riot police fired teargas to disperse the crowd but at least three protesters managed to scale the barbed-wire topped wall and get into the compound.
The embassy had been evacuated ahead of the pre-announced protest organised by the Basij, a volunteer militia affiliated to Iran's hardline Revolutionary Guards.
Several dozen petrol bombs were hurled at the premises, but only a handful of which went over the wall. The flames were quickly doused by firemen at the ready nearby.
Denmark has been the focus of Muslim rage as the images, one showing the Prophet Mohammad with a turban resembling a bomb, first appeared in a Danish daily.
Danish diplomatic missions have been set ablaze and ransacked in Syria and Lebanon in recent days over the cartoons, which were first published in a Danish newspaper.
Iran's Commerce Minister Massoud Mirkazemi announced today that Iran was severing all trade relations with Denmark.
Earlier about 200 protesters threw fire bombs and stones at the Austrian Embassy in Tehran, breaking several windows but causing no major damage. Austria holds the rotating European Union presidency.
At least four people have been killed as demonstrations against cartoons spreads across the world.
Three people were killed when police in Afghanistan fired on protesters, while in Somalia a 14-year-old boy was shot dead and several others were injured after protesters attacked the police.
Protests also erupted elsewhere across Asia and the Middle East, despite calls by world leaders for calm after Danish diplomatic missions were set ablaze in Lebanon and Syria over the weekend.
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan expressed alarm call for restraint.
Muslims in the Gulf Arab region have intensified a boycott of Danish goods.
"I call on all Arab countries to talk with moderation about what is happening," French Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy said, in a view echoed by other leaders after the weekend riots in Beirut and Damascus. "Let's keep it calm."
Ukraine became the latest country where papers published the cartoons, joining Bulgaria, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Hungary, New Zealand, Poland, the United States, Japan, Norway, Malaysia and Australia.
Meanwhile a man who dressed as a suicide bomber during the Muslim anti-cartoon protests in London today apologised "wholeheartedly" for his behaviour.
Omar Khayam's apology came as Downing Street condemned the demonstrations as "completely unacceptable" and Scotland Yard announced a special squad had been set up to investigate the placard-wielding extremists.
Mr Khayam (22) of Bedford, said it was "wrong, unjustified and insensitive" to protest dressed a suicide bomber.
The student had been pictured outside Denmark's embassy in London wearing a simulated suicide bombing to denounce the cartoons first pictured in a Danish paper satirising the Prophet Muhammad.
Lebanon's interior minister resigned after thousands of angry Muslim protesters yesterday set fire to the Danish consulate in Beirut and damaged property in a Christian area.
Interior minister Hassan al-Sabaa, a Sunni Muslim loyal to the country's anti-Syrian majority coalition, resigned at an emergency cabinet meeting.
"We had two solutions: either to try to keep people away [from the consulate] as we did, or to use weapons against them," he told reporters. "I am a person who would never order the use of arms against the Lebanese."
On Saturday, hundreds of Syrian demonstrators stormed the Danish embassy in Damascus and set fire to the building. In Thailand, about 400 Muslims stamped on Denmark's flag outside its embassy in Bangkok today.
For Muslims, depicting the Prophet is prohibited by Islam, but moderate Muslim groups, while condemning publication of the cartoons and bridling at what they see as provocation, expressed fears about radicals and militants hijacking the affair.