John Peter Hannah (born January 5, 1962) is a senior counselor at Foundation for Defense of Democracies, and a senior advisor to Chairman Ron Wahid of Arcanum, a global strategic intelligence company and a subsidiary of Magellan Investment Holdings.
He was formerly a senior fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, a Washington, DC think tank which was founded in 1985.
He is also a former national security adviser to U.S.
Vice President Dick Cheney from 2005 to 2009.
He is affiliated with pro-Israeli lobby groups aimed at directing US foreign policy towards war with Iran.