 Several Western embassies were attacked ; the Danish and Austrian embassies in Lebanon and the Norwegian and Danish representations in Syria were severely damaged . Christians and Christian churches were also targets of violent retribution in some places . Condoleezza Rice , Secretary of State of the United States , accused Iran and Syria of organising many of the protests in Iran , Syria and Lebanon . However , Hezbollah , ally of Syria and Iran in Lebanon , has condemned the attack on the Danish Embassy . Several death threats were made against the cartoonists and the newspaper , resulting in the cartoonists going into hiding . Danish Prime Minister Rasmussen called it Denmark 's worst international relations incident since the Second World War . 
