Google Doodle pays tribute to French-Iranian photographer and journalist Abbas Attar on his 80th birthday

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This doodle spans the region of Ireland, United Kingdom, France, Switzerland, Germany, Austria, and Pakistan over its visibility...

He started to focus his work on covering social developments in developing nations...

His career spanned six decades where he covered wars and revolutions including Biafra, Bangladesh, Northern Ireland, Vietnam, Bosnia, the Middle East, the Yom Kippur War of 1973, Chile, Cuba and apartheid of South Africa..

He pursued a lifelong interest in religion and its intersection with society and gained worldwide acclamation for his coverage of the Iranian Revolution in 1978-1979..

He is also credited with documenting the major religions of the world including the resurgence of radical Islam from as early as 1987...