Fox News senior strategic analyst Jack Keane, a retired general, gave a grave assessment of the state of the Iranian regime amid its crackdown on anti-government protests and hinted at what could come next Friday on "Special Report."

"If I was in the Iranian regime, I would take President Trump dead serious here," Keane warned.

On Friday, President Donald Trump warned in a Truth Social post that the U.S. is "locked and loaded and ready to go" if the Iranian regime shoots and kills protesters.

His message comes as anti-regime demonstrations enter their second week and at least 44 protesters have been killed by Iranian security, according to the National Council of Resistance of Iran.



Keane declared the Iranian regime is at its "weakest point" in 45 years with "no prospect of recovering."

Noting Trump’s warning under "no uncertain terms," Keane listed other key differences about the anti-regime protests that stood out to him from previous demonstrations in Iran.


"Politically, [the Iranian regime] can't meet the social and political and economic aspirations of the people. Economically, they're in the tank, to be sure, and with no prospect of recovering," Keane added.



"And, militarily, they just lost a war. They've lost their platform in Syria. Their proxies are, by and large, decapitated and almost eliminated, to be sure," he added. "The result of all of that is they are in a fundamentally weak position, and it's serious in terms of the regime."

The retired U.S. Army general connected his assessment of the Iranian regime to civilian protests.