Padhusin Maliki, a member of the National Security Committee of the Majles, said of J.J.'s letter. Dee Vance, Vice President of the United States, to Mosen Razai, Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council of the Islamic Republic: "I smell an unpleasant odor from this letter." He said he believes America is trying to create differences and polarization in Iranian society with this letter. Maliki also expressed pessimism about the negotiation process, saying that the latest terms of the United States, delivered to Tehran through China, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Turkey, were outside the understanding of the negotiations in Islamabad. Referring to the possibility of the continuation of the conflict between the Republic and the United States, he demanded that the issue of withdrawing from the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) be included in the agenda of the officials of the Islamic Republic.