STOCKHOLM, March 21 (Xinhua) -- Denmark is to reopen its embassy in Iran, nearly six weeks after shutting it down amid protests over the controversial publication by a Danish newspaper of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad, the country's Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday in Copenhagen.

    Ambassador Claus Juul Nielsen and his staff left Denmark on Tuesday for Tehran and the embassy will reopen soon, the ministry said in a statement, without specifying an exact date for the reopening.

    Denmark closed its embassy in Tehran on Feb. 11 over security concerns for its diplomatic mission. The embassy was pelted with stones and issued with threats during the Prophet cartoons row.

    The cartoons were first published in a Danish newspaper last September, and then reprinted by publications in Europe and elsewhere.

    The caricatures, seen as blasphemous by most Muslims, sparked widespread protests across the Muslim world. Enditem