Flouting international copyright laws and strict Islamic bans, the box-office hit film "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" has appeared in Iran -- with Persian subtitles.

Just over a month after its first release, pirated discs of the film were on sale in Tehran for around $4.

"There is high demand for the Harry Potter movie and I believe it will become a best-seller among pirated VCDs in Iran," Hossein-Ali, a 35-year-old CD shop owner, told Reuters.