The Grand Ayatollah of Iran looked like a man from another century. He typically wore a traditional turban with a flowing robe and an even more flowing beard. He stood silently but approvingly beside the President of Iran when the latter lectured the U.S. on its evil ways after the Yellowstone Supervolcano erupted. It was unknown if he was in Qom when it was struck by an apparent nuclear attack launched by Israel during a war which Iran began.