LandedSecurity / Smart CityProduct / Service Export2021IR-01

Tiandy Technologies · Iran

Source: This huge Chinese company is selling video surveillance systems to Iran (2021)High

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What happened

Tiandy sold AI surveillance cameras and software (including facial recognition and claimed race/ethnicity detection) to Iranian entities including the IRGC, military, police and state defence-electronics firm Sairan, under a five-year contract with ~8 planned local staff; documented on Tiandy's own site as Iran 'success cases'.

Structured fields

Host country: Iran
Region: Middle East
AI segment: Security / Smart City
Entry mode: Product / Service Export
Entry year: 2021
Deployment status: Landed
Capital direction: China->host (outbound deployment)
Company group: Tiandy

Local partner

Sairan

State-owned utilityState-linked partner

Scale

5-yr contract; Tiandy global sales ~US$700m (2020)

Sources & notes

Source: This huge Chinese company is selling video surveillance systems to Iran (2021)High

Record note: 5-yr contract, IRGC/police/military, Sairan, facial recognition confirmed via MIT Tech Review. US Entity-Listed Dec 2022; human-rights-sensitive deployment.

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