TEHRAN, Feb. 6 (Xinhua) -- Hundreds of angry protestors threw stone and firebomb at Danish embassy in Tehran on Monday evening, hours after a similar attack on Austrian embassy in an escalating uproar over the Prophet Muhammed cartoons.

    A small number of protestors briefly entered the compound of the Danish embassy, but were immediately driven out by police using tear gas, witnesses said.

    It was the second attack on western embassies on Monday in the Iranian capital amid the rage over cartoons blaspheming the founder of Islam.

    Earlier in the day, about 200 demonstrators, mostly young men, rallied in front of the Austrian embassy, pelting stones, setting blaze national flags of several concerned European countries and chanting anti-West slogans.

    Iran last week summoned the Austrian ambassador to Tehran, whose country is currently holding the presidency of the European Union, to express anger at the European media's publication of the caricatures.

    Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ordered on Saturday the establishment of a committee to study canceling contracts with European countries where the cartoons have been published.

    The Iranian president slammed the publication of the cartoons as an "insult" to Islam.

    Danish daily Jyllands-Poste first published 12 cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad last September, depicting him as a terrorist.

    Over the past few days, the cartoons, which were reprinted in some other European press, have provoked widespread protests and boycott of Danish products in the Muslim world.

    On Sunday, Lebanese demonstrators torched the Danish consulate in Beirut, one day after Syrian protestors set fire to the Danish and Norwegian embassies in Damascus to vent anger.

    Jyllands-Poste's editor offered an apology late Monday for offending Muslims, after long refusing to apologize for publishing the caricatures, citing the right to freedom of expression. Enditem