“Since disrespecting the prophet of Islam is not tolerable under any conditions, we call for cutting economic relations with Denmark,” said a petition addressed to the president and read out in a live radio broadcast from parliament.

The letter — signed by 232 MPs in the 290 seat hardline-controlled house — also asked the president to “freeze political relations if Denmark continues such policies.”

Denmark’s TV2 channel last month broadcast excerpts from a video made by members of the extreme-right Danish People’s Party showing the Prophet Mohammed (PBUH) as a beer-drinking camel and a drunken terrorist attacking Copenhagen.

The images were shown on TV2 only fleetingly, with a youth playing the part of Mohammed visible only from the back, as well as a drawing.

Iran on Monday summoned the Danish ambassador to condemn the video. Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen has already denounced the footage as the “unacceptable behaviour of a small group of young people.”

The video has again stirred up anger against Denmark first unleashed after publication of last year caricatures of Mohammad by a Danish newspaper, Jyllands-Posten, which caused days of violent protests worldwide.

Meanwhile a leading group of theologians at the seminary school in Iran’s clerical epicentre of Qom condemned the “Danish television channel’s insult to the holy presence of the prophet of Islam,” state television reported.

The statement called for a “revision in relations with the Danish government.”