been blamed for a string of deadly suicide attacks across the country that have killed more than 100 people in the past month.In neighboring North Waziristan on Friday, Pakistani warplanes bombed suspected militant hide-outs, killing at least four insurgents and wounding seven others, two more intelligence officials said. Those airstrikes hit targets where Taliban fighters killed 16 government troops in an ambush earlier this week, the officials said, also speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media.The U.S. appears to be ramping up the pressure on Mehsud, who is viewed in Islamabad with growing alarm. Last week, the Taliban leader narrowly escaped a strike on a funeral for militants killed in an earlier drone attack. Eighty people died in the strike,Single Digit Inflation Predicted for Iran Until March 2018

The upward inflation during the past months has been driven by a number of factors, including higher demand in the Iranian New Year holidays in late March and the presidential vote on May 19

Despite a slight rise in recent months, as expected, the inflation rate for the current Iranian year to March 20, 2018, will remain below 10%, deputy minister of economic affairs and finance, Hossein Mirshojaeian, said.

Inflation followed an uptrend after the government geared its economic policies to stimulate domestic demand by curtailing the lingering slowdown in industries and wild fluctuations in the foreign exchange market.

The rising inflation rate followed a steady decline over the preceding couple of years, but raised concerns that the figure may hit double digits