TEHRAN (IRIB) -- The Islamic Republic of Iran's Foreign Ministry summoned Finnish ambassador to Tehran on Monday and expressed its deep sorrow and concern over insult against Muslim sanctities in Denmark.

According to Foreign Ministry media department, Deputy Foreign Minister Mehdi Mostafavi told the Finnish Ambassador Heikki Puurunen, whose country is currently the rotating chairman of the European Union (EU, that the EU and Denmark government must consider the case immediately and shoud strongly condemn such a dangerous act, which has been planned to create conflict among followers of religions.

Referring to the background of such immoral and inhuman measure which happened in the anniversary of a Danish paper insult against Muslim sanctities, Mostafavi said it is not acceptable that a political party, inside the government, allows itself to insult more than one billion Muslims' sanctities and hurt the emotions of the Islamic world. The Iranian official explained dangers and negative consequences of such actions and added, "lack of proper reaction to such actions would certainly bring irreversible harms to the peaceful coexistence among different societies and followers of religions."

The Finnish ambassador to Tehran, for his part, expressed deep sorrow over the immoral and insulting action in Denmark and added he would report the case to his country and the headquarters of EU.