Evidence

Repeated attempts to search for this claim were blocked by tool usage limits during this session, so no search results could be retrieved at all — not from CENTCOM's own public statements, not from Reuters Fact Check, AFP Fact Check, Bellingcat, or EUvsDisinfo, and not from general news coverage. I have no independent corroboration that CENTCOM made any statement about redirecting 125 commercial vessels or enforcing a naval blockade on Iranian ports. I'm also not aware, from general background knowledge, of any public CENTCOM announcement of this specific kind — the US has not declared a formal naval blockade of Iranian ports in any reporting I'm aware of, though this cannot be confirmed or ruled out without the searches that failed to execute.