Lure of extremely suave Italian leader (6)
I believe the answer is:
seduce
'lure' is the definition.
(I know that seduce is a more specific form of the action lure)
'extremely suave italian leader' is the wordplay.
'extremely' suggests removing the centre (only the extremes of the word are used).
'italian leader' becomes 'duce' (Benito Mussolini was known as Il Duce).
'suave' with its middle taken out is 'se'.
'se'+'duce'='SEDUCE'
'of' acts as a link.
(Other definitions for seduce that I've seen before include "Beguile" , "Persuade (someone) to act inadvisably" , "Lure or entice away from proper behaviour" , "Persuade to be false" , "Win over" .)