The goal of this study is to investigate the behavior of Persian multiple interrogatives with respect to the Superiority Effect -SE-. Regarding the fact that this investigation and the suggested analysis adopts Chomsky’s -1995, 2000, 2001b- Minimalist Program -MP-, the paper reviews and criticizes some studies concerning Persian -multiple- wh-movement and the effect of superiority on this type of movement. Contrary to Bošković\\\'s -1999- idea that focused languages do not exhibit the SE, it is shown that multiple wh-questions in Persian, a focus language, exhibit SEs. On the other hand, it is argued that Kahnemuyipour\\\'s -2001- argument fails to work because it does not posit some types of Persian multiple interrogatives as instances of Superiority Violation -SUV-. It is also argued that Kahnemuyipour\\\'s proposal cannot account for the sentences in which there is a wh-element in the subject position and thus in order to solve the problem, a syntactic license for SUVs in Persian is postulated.

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