TOKYO: Iran's chief nuclear negotiator yesterday denied Teheran was linked to weapons seized in Thailand this month from a plane travelling from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

Last week, a high-ranking Thai government security official on a team investigating the arms seized from the impounded plane in Bangkok said the weapons were likely destined for Iran.

"The question that we are after such things is completely baseless and we are not at all after such weapons, let alone bringing in or importing from other countries," Saeed Jalili, the negotiator, said at a news conference in Tokyo.