IAEA's Amano: Iran still steadily producing uranium

How badly was Iran's centrifuge program affected by the [Stuxnet cyber] worm from 2009?

Iran is somehow producing uranium enriched to 3.5 percent and 20 percent. They are producing it steadily, constantly.

The amount of enriched uranium has not been affected?

The production is very steady.

Some say that from the moment Ayatollah [Ali] Khamenei gives the order to make the bomb it will take a year.

This is a question where we don't have much expertise. What we are doing is [tracking] how much enriched uranium they have.

President [Mahmoud] Ahmadinejad seems very determined to build a nuclear program.

I have the same impression.

What is the status of the al-Kibar situation [in Syria]?

The main issue in Syria is the al-Kibar site that was destroyed by Israel in 2007. They have constructed new buildings and we visited after the destruction in 2008. After that we continued asking Syria to allow us further access, but they did not. As I didn't receive a response, I wrote a letter to the foreign minister in November.

[Syrian] President [Bashar] al-Assad recently denied the facility ever existed.

Yes, he said the facility was not a nuclear reactor. . . . The problem is that this facility was destroyed, cleaned up and a new building was built on that ground. We hope to visit again, we hope to check it again. But the facility which was touted to be a nuclear reactor is gone.