Iran’s state broadcaster cut short a pre-recorded interview with Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf on Tuesday, triggering protests from parliament and speculation that politically sensitive sections had been censored.

Axar.az reports, citing Iran International, the interview was interrupted while Ghalibaf was explaining the mechanism for releasing Iranian assets abroad.

Video of the broadcast shows his remarks being cut off abruptly, followed by a black screen before the channel switched to other programming.

IRIB later said the interview would continue in a second installment on Wednesday, adding that this had been announced in an on-screen ticker at the end of the program.

In a statement, parliament's media office said the interview had been recorded more than two hours before broadcast and delivered in full to IRIB.

It said that if the broadcaster had decided not to air parts of the interview, it should have coordinated with parliament beforehand. Instead, it said, "The interview was stopped in the middle of its broadcast without any prior notice."

The statement said the cut section covered some of the most sensitive issues in the interview: possible IAEA inspections of Iranian nuclear sites, efforts to release frozen Iranian assets, the reported $300 billion reconstruction credit in the US-Iran MoU, responses to remarks by US President Donald Trump, and what it called Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei’s strategic message last month.