Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-5899967-20160716093855/@comment-24674051-20160718182150

First, as Esk pointed out, this is all speculation based on speculation. Though I do predict that the answer to Jasmine and Aladdin will be clear by Saturday Morning when the Once Panel at SDCC happens.

Now, that being said, I'm getting a gut feeling that Jafar could indeed make an appearance (although that could just be the burrito I had for lunch). But probably only in flashback. And it is possible that Aladdin's genie is neither Cyrus nor Sydney. Cyrus had 2 brothers that were also transformed into genies, and one of them could easily be the genie from Aladdin's Lamp. (though, tbf, they would need to twist the tale to be "Aladdin's Bottle", since Cyrus and his brothers were all in bottles.)