Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) said Friday it's “premature” for anyone to be claiming that Iran will not try to continue its nuclear program.

“The Iranian regime had not made a decision to build a bomb, was not pursuing the mechanism of a bomb, even though it was enriching uranium,” he said in Friday comments on ABC News Live.

Over the past week, there has been heavy debate over whether the U.S. strikes in Iran on June 21 were necessary and over how successful they were at setting back or eliminating Iran's nuclear program.

“Do they now want to be more like North Korea and be a nuclear state than a nuclear threshold state? We don’t know, and it will take time before we do........

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