Seized weapons plane in Thailand not heading for Iran: official

“There was no link between this airplane and Iran,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast told a weekly press briefing.

Mehmanparast added that even Thai officials made no claim that that plane was flying to Iran.

Thai authorities said they seized more than 35 tons of arms from a cargo plane they said had come from North Korea, and arrested its five crew members after the aircraft made an emergency landing at a Bangkok airport in December.

Iran does not need any military weapons as the country has made significant progress in building modern weapons, Mehmanparast explained.

He described such reports as baseless, saying Tehran believes they are part of the enemy’s soft war against Iran.