Iranian foreign ministry spokesperson Esmail Baghaei called the US policy towards Tehran a "pure parody," and slammed the new US sanctions package against Iran.

"It turns to Bahrain - a country with virtually no meaningful economic exchange with Iran - to prove that its “coalition” is working," Baghaei wrote on X on Thursday.

According to him, the US is also restricting sports and academic exchanges with Iran that "had already been effectively dead for years."

"It is sanctioning the already sanctioned and calling the empty space a coalition," Iran's MFA spokesperson stressed.