What Don Corleone knew about power — and how Iran uses it today

Don Corleone’s character in The Godfather is one of Hollywood’s most memorable villains. He was a fictional mobster transplanted to New York City in 1901 as a child, orphaned by mob violence in his native Sicily that took his family.
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