Families are currently challenging the law in the supreme court, and pressure groups say it is causing young children to have long-term separation from their families.
Last year the supreme court raised pressure on MPs to act by suggesting that it had the power to declare that the current law, which makes it illegal for people to take their own lives, is "incompatible" with human rights.
Rouhani, under pressure from supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to publicly admit that the west has not fully lifted sanctions, said on the anniversary that "anyone that initiates the violation of the deal will be the loser on the international arena".
Meanwhile, the supreme court has applied stringent pressure on the ISI and its sister agency, Military Intelligence, to answer for their activities in the western province of Baluchistan.
The debate is ongoing today, as media organisations and legal groups pressure the US supreme court to relieve their own ban on cameras in the courtroom.
He will thus come under intense pressure from the supreme leader's office to reign in some of his supporters for the good of the republic.
Mr. Rafsanjani "wished to use the public support to put pressure on the supreme leader to resign," Mr. Mashaei said in a speech quoted by news agencies.
Political pressure on the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, to reverse these decisions may bear little fruit without serious public disquiet, although in 2004, the supreme leader did force through a small number of candidates originally listed for disqualification.Hedging betsQuite where any "protest votes" against Mr Ahmadinejad will go is not yet clear.
The bill follows sustained campaigning for a little longer than a decade over the right to food, which has involved arguments in the supreme court, public mobilisation, and pressure on the state to accept its legal obligations towards the most vulnerable groups in society.
Under such intensified pressures, Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader, could acquiesce and negotiate with the opposition.
