“The US’s desperate moves against Iranian private individuals, like those announced by Secretary of State (Mike. - RT ) Pompeo, are just a signal of the miserable failure of the so-called“ maximum pressure, ”he wrote on his Twitter.

Mousavi added that Iran and Venezuela remain “unshakable” in countering illegal US sanctions.

Earlier, the US State Department announced that five captains of Iranian vessels would be banned from working in American waters.