Guys I'm sorry to be a little doomy & gloomy here, but I have bad feelings about that whole "backchannel" circus.
By markets closure on Friday they will :
-start massively bombing the electrical grid
-deploy the 82nd along with support from the MEUs
The two will be done in conjunction with a surge in bombings also in the planned deployment theater. Another Shock & Awe, try to develop with an assault at Chabahar , possibly already agreed with local Baluch insurgency. The Kharg/Kurdish thing is a ruse, and a bad one at that. They made a fuss about Kharg while it does not make any real strategic sense, and try to fool us into thinking supporting separatists elements in not on the cards with the Kurdish "disqualification". They might be reactivated in tandem with Baluchis.
There are long-terms plans with Iran. They are absolutely not done, not even close. They will erode it bit by bit, on the longer run, in low-intensity bombings like it's being done , punctuated with high-intensity when magazines and maintenance cycles allow. The power plants assault is one big , visible part of it to acceleration the demise of the state, I hope we don't get to this, but a lot of signs are pointing.
All the ridiculous talk about negotiations is a disgraceful farce thrown at our faces for the third time. Trump is having his fun and absolutely loves berating Iranians as if they were nothing, it's appalling. He's enjoying his little monologue and knows that the whole world knows he's full of it. He simply does not care and will move ahead with his marching orders from Netanhyahu. Those "terms" are as unacceptable as they can get by design, yet again, the ballistic program by its mere reported presence means it's a done non-deal.
If anything he set it up exactly like last time : "as I told you day after day this week, we made progress, and then some more, and suddenly they stopped cooperating. I did all I could to avoid that, but now we really have to go all the way I guess. It's back to obliteration".