TEHRAN (IRNA) -- Foreign Minister Manuchehr Mottaki here on Thursday called on the Organization of the Islamic Conference to seriously deal with those violating the sanctities of Islam.

Mottaki held a telephone conversation with the OIC Secretary General Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu to condemn the insulting cartoons of Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) published in a Swedish paper.

The Iranian minister proposed the OIC foreign ministers to hold an emergency meeting to discuss factors behind such "organized assault" on the Islamic world.

Ihsanoglu, for his part, said despite apology of the officials of some of the countries, publication of the "sacrilegious" cartoons in their media is still continuing and such "worthless" measures can by no means be interpreted as freedom of expression.

He stressed the Islamic nations will not tolerate such insulting acts and welcomed Mottaki's proposal on holding an emergency session.

The OIC secretary-general said he would inform member states of the organization on the proposal in the earliest time.

The publication of the insulting cartoons was immediately met by outrage and angry protests among world Muslims.

Caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) published in a Danish tabloid in September provoked boycotts and angry protests across the Muslim world on Tuesday with interior ministers from 17 Arab countries calling on the Danish government to punish the authors.

The General Secretariat of the OIC also condemned the reprehensible publications in the Danish newspaper Jylland Posten which found their way in the Norwegian daily Magazinet.