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Q    I wanted to ask you about Iranian sanctions.   The President, earlier this month, said that the U.S. would come down like a ton of bricks on countries that circumvent those.  And there’s concern up on the Hill that some Chinese data -- Chinese government data that shows that their imports of Iranian crude has jumped 29 percent since November and that Indian imports have grown as well.  Is there concern about those transactions?

MR. CARNEY:  What I can tell you, Jim, is that the way that this is measured, as I understand it, is over a six-month period in terms of maintaining levels of imports and that that data -- those levels can fluctuate on any given month.  We obviously are watching this closely, in keeping with the expectation that we have that all nations will abide by their commitments under the sanctions regime.  But I would, on the matter of one month’s export levels, caution that, as I understand it, the way this is viewed is over a longer period of time.

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