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    This satellite image from Planet Labs PBC shows Iran's underground Natanz nuclear site, near Natanz, Iran, May 9, 2022. (Planet Labs PBC via AP) This satellite image from Planet Labs PBC shows Iran's underground Natanz nuclear site, near Natanz, Iran, May 9, 2022. (Planet Labs PBC via AP)
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    Iran has started removing 27 surveillance cameras from nuclear sites across the country, the head of the UN atomic watchdog said Thursday, warning this could deal a 鈥渇atal blow鈥 to the tattered nuclear deal as Tehran enriches uranium closer than ever to weapons-grade levels.

    The development comes a day after the International Atomic Energy Agency's board of governors censured Tehran for failing to provide 鈥渃redible information鈥 over man-made nuclear material found at three undeclared sites in the country.

    It also follows months of deadlocked over stalled talks aimed at restoring the Islamic Republic's 2015 nuclear deal with world powers. Tensions remain high across the wider Middle East over the accord's collapse as U.S. sanctions and rising global food prices choke Iran's ailing economy, putting further pressure on its government and its people.

    鈥淭his, of course, poses a serious challenge to our ability to continue working there,鈥 warned Rafael Mariano Grossi, the IAEA's director-general.

    He added that if an agreement cannot be reached to restore the cameras in three to four weeks, 鈥渢his would be a fatal blow鈥 to Iran's tattered nuclear deal. Already, Grossi warned that without the cameras, Iran could make centrifuges and divert them to unknown locations.

    鈥漌hen we lose this, then it's anybody's guess,鈥 he added.

    Iran did not immediately acknowledge it was removing the 27 cameras, though it earlier threatened it could take more punitive steps. State media aired footage Thursday of workers disconnected two IAEA cameras from power.

    鈥淲e hope that they come to their senses and respond to Iran's cooperation with cooperation,鈥 Behrouz Kamalvandi, an Iranian nuclear program spokesman, said Wednesday of the IAEA officials. 鈥淚t is not acceptable that they show inappropriate behavior while Iran continues to cooperate.鈥

    Iran's hard-line President Ebrahim Raisi struck a much more combative tone Thursday while visiting the central city of Shahr-e Kord.

    鈥淒o you assume that we withdraw because of resolutions?鈥 he asked. 鈥淚n the name of God and in the name of the nation, Iran will not withdraw from its stance a single step.鈥

    Grossi made the comments at a suddenly called news conference in Vienna, standing next to an example of the cameras installed across Iran. Iran will remove IAEA cameras from sites, including in Tehran, the underground Natanz nuclear enrichment facility, the facility in Isfahan and the Arak heavy water reactor in Khondab, he said.

    鈥淔orty-something鈥 IAEA cameras would remain active in Iran, Grossi said, though Tehran already has been withholding IAEA footage since February 2021 as a pressure tactic to restore the atomic accord.

    鈥淲e are in a very tense situation with the negotiations on the revival of the (nuclear deal) at a low ebb,鈥 Grossi added. 鈥淣ow we are adding this to the picture; so, as you can see, it's not a very nice one.鈥

    On Wednesday, Iran said it shut off two devices that the IAEA uses to monitor enrichment at Natanz. Grossi acknowledged that Thursday, saying that among the devices being removed was the Online Enrichment Monitor and flowmeter. Those watch the enrichment of uranium gas through piping at enrichment facilities and allowed inspectors to remotely track its work.

    Meanwhile, the IAEA earlier Thursday said Iran informed the agency that it planned to install two new cascades of the IR-6 at Natanz. A cascade is a series of centrifuges hooked together to rapidly spin uranium gas to enrich it.

    An IR-6 centrifuge spins uranium 10 times faster than the first-generation centrifuges that Iran was once limited to under its nuclear deal with world powers. As of February, Iran already had been spinning a cascade of IR-6s at its underground facility at Fordo, according to the IAEA.

    Iran earlier said it planned to install one cascade of IR-6s at Natanz. The IAEA said it 鈥渧erified鈥 the ongoing installation of that cascade Monday, while the installing of the newly promised two other cascades had yet to begin.

    Iran and world powers agreed in 2015 to the nuclear deal, which saw Tehran drastically limit its enrichment of uranium in exchange for the lifting of economic sanctions. In 2018, then-President Donald Trump unilaterally withdrew America from the accord, raising tensions across the wider Middle East and sparking a series of attacks and incidents.

    Talks in Vienna about reviving the deal have been stalled since April. Since the deal's collapse, Iran has been running advanced centrifuges and rapidly growing stockpile of enriched uranium.

    Nonproliferation experts warn Iran has enriched enough up to 60% purity - a short technical step from weapons-grade levels of 90% - to make one nuclear weapon should it decide to do so.

    Iran insists its program is for peaceful purposes, though UN experts and Western intelligence agencies say Iran had an organized military nuclear program through 2003.

    Building a nuclear bomb would still take Iran more time if it pursued a weapon, analysts say, though they warn Tehran's advances make the program more dangerous. Israel has threatened in the past that it would carry out a preemptive strike to stop Iran - and already is suspected in a series of recent killings targeting Iranian officials.

    Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett praised Wednesday's IAEA board vote to censure Tehran as 鈥渁 significant decision that exposes Iran's true face.鈥

    The 鈥淚AEA vote is a clear warning light to Iran: If Iran continues its activity, the leading countries must bring the matter back to the UN Security Council,鈥 said Bennett, who made an unannounced trip Thursday to the United Arab Emirates.

    The crisis risks escalating further, however.

    On Wednesday night, a drone exploded in the northern Iraqi city of Irbil in the northern Kurdish region, slightly wounding three people and damaging cars and a nearby restaurant, officials said. The Iraqi Kurdish region's directorate-general of counterterrorism alleged on Thursday that the Iran-backed militia Kataeb Hezbollah, or Hezbollah Brigades, launched the drone.

    The militia later denied launching the drone attack.

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    Gambrell reported from Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

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