What are you taking about? There isn't even an Iranian embassy in Maldives nor a Maldives embassy in Iran. There is no trade, no flights, no government visits, nothing.
If I was Maldives, I would do the same thing. They haven't lost anything at all by cutting ties with a country that they have no real ties with any way and they benefit by getting something from Saudi Arabia.
Unfortunately for maldivians, Saudi has yet again destroyed a country with its poisonous influence . Just read up on its radicalization in a country that has a quarter million people.
http://www.jamestown.org/single/?tx_ttnews[tt_news]=45009&no_cache=1#.Vz0o0mgVRSA
Renowned for pristine beaches and crystal blue waters, the Maldives is rapidly gaining prominence as a haven for jihadist recruitment. Maldivian men - reportedly 200 of them – have been streaming to Iraq and Syria to join the ranks of the Islamic State (IS) militant group, the al-Qaeda-affiliated Jabhat al-Nusra organization, as well as other radical organizations. This is a large number considering the Indian Ocean archipelago of around 1,200 islands has a population of roughly 359,000 people (Indian Express, April 15, 2015). Not only does the Maldives thus have the world’s largest number of jihadists per capita active in Iraq and Syria, but it also accounts for the biggest number of jihadists from any South Asian country fighting in these countries. Several jihadists have taken their wives and children to the Middle East battle zones with them
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/isis-paradise-maldives-latest-recruiting-ground-islamic-state-1517853
In an ISIS video released on 31 August on social media, three masked men threatened to kill the president of the Maldives, Abdulla Yameen, and to unleash a terrorist campaign on the islands, one of the world's most sought-after holiday destinations.
http://www.mumbaimirror.com/mumbai/...leaving-to-join-ISIS/articleshow/51933993.cms
A failed Indo-US operation to stop a radicalised Maldivian family of 12 from flying out from Bangalore in December last year to join the Islamic State in Syria has brought into focus once again the worrying trend of jihadists using India as a transit point and the neighbouring nation of islands turning into a hotbed of extremism.
http://m.firstpost.com/world/maldiv...india-has-reason-to-be-concerned-2721984.html