Ayatollah Khamenei

Iran's Ayatollah Khamenei is portrayed as a practitioner of Machiavellian politics in this article for Foreign Policy. After showing how he follows Machiavelli's precepts, the article makes an interesting point concerning Khamenei's age (72) and the fact that 70% of Iranians are younger than 33, saying:

Despite his vast authority, his public appearances increasingly render him less a supreme leader than a grouchy old man yelling at his youthful subjects to stay off his proverbial lawn.

Now that is some serious lese majeste.