Lavasani

One of old and famous Iranian families who chiefly live in Tehran and are told to be of Muhammad descendants.Sources says much about them as old as early days of Qajar dynasty. [ Persian Book, "طنین روحانی در خاندان لواسانی", written by Ibrahim Lavasani ]
The name in Persian means "one who is from city of Lavasan" hence nowadays there are many people named Lavasani, but not many of them belong to the mainstream family.

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Considering family culture, there are contrasting trends, ranging from intellectual conservative [ Ulama ] to highly educated liberals, educators, fashionable women artists and reformers with progressive outlook. The members of the original family include scholars, philosophers, architects, artists, medical doctors with a broad range of education from the United States, Europe and Iran. Inherent conservatism comes from the fact that they contributed a lot to the Islamic intellectual clergy during recent centuries. These clerics mostly had prominent social status. Furthermore western liberal trend of family comes from their old money/wealth, their long lineage going back to the Seljuq Dynasty of the 13th. century as well as the Qajars and their social status in modern Tehran. But still there are some affinities among them like sense of family bond, political and religious tolerance, absence of fundamentalist trends and tendency toward progress.

Celebrities

There are famous individuals among them:

*Mohammad Sadeq Hosseini Lavasani (one of Imam Khomeini's lifelong friends)
*Dr. Mohammad Baqer Lavasani, M.D., Ph.D. - elected senator during the incipient days of the Islamic Republic was killed in June 28, 1981 when a bomb exploded in a meeting in the senate. Many then high-ranked Iranian officials were killed in the incident including Ayatollah Dr. Mohammad Beheshti). Following the incident, the Farmanieh St., located in the north of Tehran, where the members of the original family have been residing over centuries, was renamed after him.
*Dr. Abbas Lavasani (killed in Iranian Embassy Siege in London)

Due to their religious and intellectual background, in addition to cited names, there are other individuals who contributed in Islamic Republic Administration after Iran Islamic Revolution, namely:

*Hujjatul Islam Mohammed Ali Lavasani (Former Iranian Ambassador for Tanzania)
*Hossein Lavasani (Former Iranian Ambassador for Canada and Turkey)
*Mohammad-Taghi Lavasani (Former high-ranked official of Iranian Higher Education Ministry)